Breaktime vs. Recess

Breaktime vs. Recess — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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Recessnoun

(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

the recess of the tides

Recessnoun

(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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 science

Recessnoun

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.
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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 wall

Recessadjective

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 recuperate

Recessverb

put into a recess;

recess lights

Recessverb

make a recess in;

recess the piece of wood

Recessverb

close at the end of a session;

The court adjourned