English-Estonian translations for recess

Definition of recess

• A break, pause or vacation
• An inset, hole, space or opening
• A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime
• A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire
• A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat
• The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy
• A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion
• A secret or abstruse part
• A sinus
• To inset into something, or to recede
• To take or declare a break
• To appoint, with a recess appointment
• To make a recess in. Webster 1913--
• Remote, distant (in time or place

Examples

• Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
• Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
• Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.
• the recess of the tides
• the difficulties and recesses of science
• Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.
• Recess the screw so it does not stick out.
• This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
• Class will recess for 20 minutes.
• to recess a wall

Related words

• recession
• recessive
• precession
• recessed
• recessively
• recessional
• precess
• recessionista
• antirecession