noun
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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The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.