recess

1. n. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Source: opted

2. n. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. Source: opted

3. n. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. Source: opted

4. n. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. Source: opted

5. n. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. Source: opted

6. n. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. Source: opted

7. n. A sinus. Source: opted

8. v. t. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. Source: opted

9. n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Source: opted

10. n. a state of abeyance or suspended business Source: wordnet

11. n. a small concavity Source: wordnet

12. n. an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) Source: wordnet

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