different between recess vs compartment

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 (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?part?ment

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

1. A room, or section, or chamber

   Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Derived terms

• engine compartment

Translations

Verb

compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)

1. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.