Recess

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.

   “Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.”

2. isim A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.

   “[T]he Harmony, Proportion and Beauty of Buildings are equally admirable, vvhether they be executed in plain Free-ſtone, or the moſt beautiful Marble; vvhether the Carvings or Mouldings be gilt or not; the Receſſes or Panels in the VValls be curiouſly painted, or only plaiſter'd.”

3. isim The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
4. isim A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.

   “The recesses of the forest answered well the purposes of concealment, and Lucy was useful both as an unsuspected messenger, and also for the intelligence she was able to obtain.”

5. isim A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.

   “[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.”

6. isim An obscure, remote, or secret situation.

   “the difficulties and recesses of science”

7. isim A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.

   “Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.”

8. isim A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.

   “After the Easter recess, Sir George Lynn, who was lately elected member for Millcote, will have to go up to town and take his seat; […]”

9. isim A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.

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

10. isim An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.

    “the recess of the tides”

11. isim A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.

    “Conformably to this a receſs [the Recess of Augsburg] vvas framed, approved of, and publiſhed vvith the uſual formalities. […] Such are the capital articles in this famous Receſs, vvhich is the baſis of religious peace in Germany, […]”

12. isim An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.

    “First we went to the Castle of St. Elmo, built on a very high rock, whence we had an intire prospect of yᵉ whole Citty, which lyes in shape of a theatre upon the sea brinke, with all the circumjacent islands, as far as Capreæ, famous for the debauched recesses of Tiberius.”

13. isim Leisure, relaxation.

    “It [Rome] is divided into 14 Regions or Wards; has 7 Mountaines, and as may Campi or Vally's; in these are faire Parks or Gardens call'd Villas, being onely places of recesse and pleasure, at some distance from the streetes, yet within the walls.”

14. isim The state of being withdrawn.

    “Good Verſe, receſs and Solitude requires: / And Eaſe from Cares, and undiſturb'd Deſires.”

15. isim A departure from a norm or position.

    “The external maladies are. 1. Tumours, vvhich are receſſes of the parts of mans body, from the natural ſtate, […]”

16. isim A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.

    “But in the end (as Perſons capable of reaſon) on both ſides they made rather a kind of Receſſe, then a Breach of Treaty, and concluded vpon a Truce for ſome moneths follovving.”

17. isim An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
18. isim An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
19. sıfat Of a place or time: distant, remote.
20. fiil To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.

    “His house stood recessed from the road, and the stables, which are to a farm what a fireplace is to a house, were behind, their lower portions being lost amid bushes of laurel.”

21. fiil To make a recess (noun senses 1 and 1.1) in (something).

    “to recess a wall”

22. fiil Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.

    “That gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.”

23. fiil To conceal, to hide.

    “Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.”

24. fiil To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).

    “When Congress is recessed, he makes himself acquainted with those free United States, of which he is the gifted son.”

25. fiil To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
26. fiil Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.

    “Class will recess for 20 minutes.”

27. fiil Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.

    “This court shall recess for its lunch break now.”

28. özel isim A village in County Galway, Ireland.