Word Finder - recess

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A break, pause or vacation.

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Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.

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An inset, hole, space or opening.

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Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.

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A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.

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Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.

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A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

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the recess of the tides

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The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

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A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

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A secret or abstruse part.

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the difficulties and recesses of science

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A sinus.

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To inset into something, or to recede.

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Recess the screw so it does not stick out.

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To take or declare a break.

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Class will recess for 20 minutes.

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To appoint, with a recess appointment.

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To make a recess in.

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to recess a wall

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Remote, distant (in time or place).

School was back in session after the holiday recess so the rink was nearly empty.

The bone recess at the end was from 50 cm.

Dillon has suggested that this central recess may have served to support a wick.

The circular space on each side of the basi-temporal (bt.) is the opening of the anterior tympanic recess.

The summer recess normally runs from August to early October.

He was active at the diet of Spires in 1526, and the "recess" of this diet gave him an opportunity to reform the church in Saxony, where a plan for divine service was drawn up by Luther.

We have a parliamentary recess which begins at the end of July.

A permanent committee of 14 members represents the two chambers during the congressional recess and exercises certain supervisory and advisory powers in the administration of public affairs.

Do not use recess as a time to make-up missed schoolwork.

This act of violence, evidently designed to terrorize the Church into submission, was effectual enough, for at the subsequent Riksdag of Vesteras (June, 1527), the bishops durst not even present a protest which they had privately prepared, and the assembly Recess and itself was bullied into an absolute submission to the Ordinance royal will.

From 1539 onwards there was a breach between him and his own prelates in consequence of his arbitrary appropriation of the Church's share of the tithes, in direct violation of the Vesteras Recess.

During the parliamentary recess, however, the executive remained in the hands of the rad, or senate, which was responsible to the Riksdag alone.

It was in the recess in the back wall of this hall that the famous Peacock Throne used to stand, "so called from its having the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails being expanded and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours as to represent life."

On the other hand, the preachers failed to obtain the repeal of the Odense recess of 1527 which had subjected them to the spiritual jurisdiction of the prelates.

Scent-glands, Eec. - Besides the universally distributed sweatglands connected with the hair-system, most mammals have special glands in modified portions of the skin, often involuted to form a shallow recess or a deep sac with a narrow opening, situated in various parts of the surface of the body, and secreting odorous substances, by the aid of which individuals recognize one another.

Violent scenes greeted the attempt of the government to procure the suspension of the parliamentary immunities of 140 deputies, accused or suspected of more or less treasonable practices, and when, on the 4th of October, the Cortes reopened after the summer recess, Seor Romero Robledo, the president of the lower house, opened an attack on the ministry for their attempted breach of its privileges.

The condition of the peasantry, however, during this reign reached its lowest point, and the " recess," or charter, of 1653 practically recognizes the existence of villenage.

This took place in the summer recess of 1900 at Zarauz, a village on the coast of Guipuzcoa, where he was buried.

Feature fireplace with a stone surround, hearth & mantel with display shelving & recess alongside.

The bow itself lies proud of the sea bed, forming a recess for a large ling to hide in.

Feature stone paved ornamental fireplace recess, timber mantel, textured ceiling.

In no time at all it seemed I had reached a small recess with an old piton hammered into a crack.

For an open fire the fireplace recess should be at least 350mm deep.

Almost facing you is a recess In the wall called a bee bole shaped to take an old straw hive called a skep.

Timmy was put in time out because his mother heard about how he batted at his friends at recess.

During the recess he published his Advancement of Learning, dedicated to the king.

Electric cooker point, plumbing for a dishwasher, recess under the stairs, double glazed rear aspect window, coved ceiling.

As chancellor he issued writs for the election of thirty-six new members to fill vacancies caused during the long recess; this, though grounded upon precedent, was open to suspicion as an attempt to fortify Charles, and was attacked by an angry House of Commons which met on the 4th of February 1673.

In the pagan cemeteries, on the other hand, the sepulchral recess as a rule entered the rock like an oven at right angles to the corridor, the body being introduced endways.

The scanty leisure of his first recess had been devoted to writing his St Andrews rectorial address on higher education and to answering attacks on his criticism of Hamilton; of the second, to annotating in conjunction with Bain and Findlater, his father's Analysis of the Mind.

Let DID be the path of contact, consisting of the arc of approach DI and the arc of recess ID.

The result was the Vesteras Recess of which transferred all ecclesiastical property to the 1527.

The final business would be a Motion for the summer recess adjournment.

It consists of a flight of steps leading down to a clear spring in a stone lined recess with a large granite capstone.

Tomb chest in recess, flanked by columns and carrying an entablature with achievement and supporters.

The Convention, which had taken a recess until the 6th of August, then reassembled and (August 20) adopted an ordinance providing for a popular vote on the formation of a new state, and for a convention to frame a constitution if the vote should be favourable.

The mosque of Khaseki, supposed to have been an old Christian church, is chiefly distinguished for its prayer niche, which, instead of being a simple recess, is crowned by a Roman arch, with square pedestals, spirally fluted shafts and a rich capital of flowers, with a fine fan or shell-top in the Roman style.

Kadisha, "the holy river" (the valley of which begins in the immediate neighbourhood of the highest summits, and rapidly descends in a series of great bends till the river reaches the sea at Tripoli), Wadi el-Joz (falling into the sea at Batrun), Wadi Fidar, Nahr Ibrahim (the ancient Adonis, having its source in a recess of the great mountain amphitheatre where the famous sanctuary Apheca, the modern Afka, lay), Nahr el-Kelb (the ancient Lycus), Nahr Beirut (the ancient Magoras, entering the sea at Beirut), Nahr Damur (ancient Tamyras), Nahr el-'Auwali (the ancient Bostrenus, which in the upper part of its course is joined by the Nahr el-Baruk).

Integrated dishwasher, recess for range style cooker (LPG and electric points), plumbing for automatic washing machine.

If the back of the plate is shaped for the screw fixings, use a countersink tool to bore out a recess for these.

The teacher refused to let the class resume their recess until the students who got into a fight made amends with each other.

Recess lighting into the soffit for unobtrusive light, or hang pendants from the soffit on slightly shorter cords for a more intimate look.

Or, if you feel that there is enough detail in the room, simply drop a soffit over the island and recess some lighting into it for all the light with none of the unwanted design elements that may clutter the space.

Surface mount cabinets can be used in bathrooms that can't recess a cabinet, or for style reasons.

You can open these up to create a recess cabinet or space for a hamper.

Take plenty of time to fill the recess between the tapered edges of drywall with joint compound.

Large, unstructured peer group settings (such as recess) are particularly difficult situations for many of the children who have peer problems.

The ribbon must stay secure for many uses and in many situations, such as windy days, while dancing, or a child's recess activities.

The cup fit into a corresponding recess in the base unit, and an electric motor caused the blades to spin.

When the jar is full, reward the class or individual with a predetermined reward such as a movie, or extra recess.