Breaktime vs. Recess
Difference Between Breaktime and Recess
Breaktimenoun
(US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
Recessnoun
A break, pause or vacation.
Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.Breaktimenoun
(UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
Recessnoun
An inset, hole, space or opening.
Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.Recessnoun
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (UK) break, playtime.
Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.Recessnoun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recessnoun
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
the recess of the tidesRecessnoun
(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recessnoun
(archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recessnoun
A secret or abstruse part.
the difficulties and recesses of scienceRecessnoun
A sinus.
Recessverb
To inset into something, or to recede.
Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.Recess the screw so it does not stick out.Recessverb
(intransitive) To take or declare a break.
This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.Class will recess for 20 minutes.Recessverb
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Recessverb
To make a recess in.
to recess a wallRecessadjective
Remote, distant (in time or place).
Recessnoun
a state of abeyance or suspended business
Recessnoun
a small concavity
Recessnoun
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Recessnoun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
Recessnoun
a pause from doing something (as work);
we took a 10-minute breakhe took time out to recuperateRecessverb
put into a recess;
recess lightsRecessverb
make a recess in;
recess the piece of woodRecessverb
close at the end of a session;
The court adjourned
