different between recess vs rebate

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.

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 (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

Alternative forms

• rabate (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??i?be?t/, /???be?t/

Noun

rebate (plural rebates)

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Translations

Further reading

• rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

Verb

rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)

1. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
2. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
5. To abate; to withdraw.

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Translations

Anagrams

• Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

Portuguese

Verb

rebate

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of rebater
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of rebater

Romanian

Etymology

re- +? bate

Verb

a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle reb?tut) 3rd conj.

1. to retype
2. to restrike

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology 1

Verb

rebate

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of rebatir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of rebatir.

Etymology 2

Verb

rebate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rebatar.