recess

Definition

  • noun: a short period of time during the school day when children can play
  • noun: the action of 'receding'
  • verb: to put into a recess
  • verb: to stop regular activity in a court of law or in a government for a usually short period of time
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: recession, retreat, seclusion

Examples

  • The students play outside after lunch and at/during 'recess'.

  • He buried the memory in the deepest 'recesses of' his mind.

  • The Senate debates will continue after the August 'recess'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) of their University. I see my father greeting under the stone arch, the red potteries as blood are behind their head. I do my mother with some books in their hands, in the patio of recesses, the doors of grills are still open behind her. They are black as their hair. They are about to graduate. (..)
    2007 Into the Wild