different between recess vs exedra

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 (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

From Ancient Greek ?? (ex, “out of”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”).

Noun

exedra (plural exedras or exedrae)

1. (architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.
2. (by extension) A curved bench with a high back.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?? (ex, “out of”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ek.se.dra/, [??ks??d??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ek.se.dra/, [???z?d???]

Noun

exedra f (genitive exedrae); first declension

1. hall (with seats) for a discussion etc

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• exedra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exedra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exedra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• exedra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• exedra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• exedra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exedra in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin