different between furrow vs recess

English

Etymology

From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *per?- (“to dig”).

Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar?šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit ?????? (pár??na, “chasm”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??o?/, /?f?o?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f????/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

furrow (plural furrows)

1. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.

   Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.

2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
3. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

   When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

Derived terms

• furrowless
• furrowlike
• furrowy

Translations

Verb

furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)

1. (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
2. (transitive) To wrinkle.
3. (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.

   Synonym: frown

Derived terms

• furrower
• furrowing
• unfurrow
• unfurrowed

Translations

See also

• plough a lonely furrow

English

Etymology

From Latin recessus.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.s?s/, /??.?s?s/

Noun

recess (countable and uncountable, plural recesses)

1. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
2. An inset, hole, space or opening.

   • a bed […] which stood in a deep recess
3. (US, Australia, Canada) A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (Britain) break, playtime.

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

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)

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

   • every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality

   • 1649, Charles I of England, Eikon Basilike

     My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.

6. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     In this recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Good verse recess and solitude requires.

7. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
8. A secret or abstruse part.

   the difficulties and recesses of science

   • light what has been lodged in all the recesses and secret chambers of the soul

9. (botany, zoology) A sinus.

Synonyms

• (a break): break, day off, pause, vacation; hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:vacation or Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

• recess appointment
• recession
• recessive

Translations

Verb

recess (third-person singular simple present recesses, present participle recessing, simple past and past participle recessed)

1. To inset into something, or to recede.

2. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.

3. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
   • 2013, Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in Time, ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:

     To the National Rifle Association's delight, the Senate has hobbled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by failing to confirm a director since 2006, but Obama hasn't made a recess appointment. […] "The President's view of his own power is a constrained one," says White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. "Many of his nominees have languished, but he's only recessed the ones that were critical to keep agencies functioning."

4. To make a recess in.

Translations

Adjective

recess

1. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

Anagrams

• cesser, screes

Swedish

Noun

recess c

1. a decision, an agreement, a return (to previous conditions)
2. a recess, a niche

Declension

Synonyms

• återgång

References

• recess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)