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recess
English
Etymology
From Latin recessus.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /??i?.s?s/, /??.?s?s/
Noun
recess (countable and uncountable, plural recesses)
- (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
- An inset, hole, space or opening.
- a bed […] which stood in a deep recess
- (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.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- (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.
- (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.
- 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England
- (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- 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
- (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)
- To inset into something, or to recede.
- (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
- (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."
- 2013, Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in Time, ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:
- To make a recess in.
Translations
Adjective
recess
- (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).
Anagrams
- cesser, screes
Swedish
Noun
recess c
- a decision, an agreement, a return (to previous conditions)
- a recess, a niche
Declension
Synonyms
- återgång
References
- recess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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interval
English
Etymology
From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nt?v?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nt?v?l/
- Hyphenation: in?ter?val
Noun
interval (plural intervals)
- A distance in space.
- 1666, 8 September, The London Gazette
- [M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]
- 1666, 8 September, The London Gazette
- A period of time.
- the interval between contractions during childbirth
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,
Derived terms
- even-interval
Related terms
- interval class
- interval cycle
Translations
Further reading
- interval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- interval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- interval at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin intervallum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /in.t???val/
- (Central) IPA(key): /in.t?r?bal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /in.te??val/
Noun
interval m (plural intervals)
- interval
Further reading
- “interval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “interval” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “interval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “interval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??nt?rval]
Noun
interval m inan
- (mathematics) interval
Derived terms
- intervalový
- otev?ený interval
- uzav?ený interval
- interval spolehlivosti
- konfiden?ní interval
Further reading
- interval in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- interval in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt?rv?l/
Noun
interval n (plural intervallen, diminutive intervalletje n)
- interval
Derived terms
- integratie-interval
See also
- tussenruimte
Romanian
Etymology
From French intervalle, from Latin intervallum.
Noun
interval n (plural intervale)
- interval
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /int?r?a?l/
- Hyphenation: in?ter?val
Noun
intèrv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- interval
Declension
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