Recess vs. Vacation
Difference Between Recess and Vacation
Recessnoun
A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit
The chairman of the committee called for a recess until Thursday.Vacationnoun
A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.
Recessnoun
A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax.
Vacationnoun
A holiday.
Recessnoun
often recesses A remote, secret, or secluded place
a bird that lives deep in the recesses of the forest.Vacationnoun
A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.
Recessnoun
An indentation or small hollow
Dirt accumulated in the recesses of the statue.Vacationnoun
The act or an instance of vacating.
Recessnoun
An alcove.
Vacationverb
To take or spend a vacation.
Recessverb
To place in a recess.
Vacationnoun
Freedom from some business or activity.
Recessverb
To create or fashion a recess in
recessed a portion of the wall.Vacationnoun
(obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
Recessverb
To suspend for a recess
The committee chair recessed the hearings.Vacationnoun
A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
Recessverb
To take a recess
The investigators recessed for lunch.Vacationnoun
(North America) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
Recessnoun
A break, pause or vacation.
Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.Vacationnoun
The act of vacating something; moving out.
The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.Recessnoun
An inset, hole, space or opening.
Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.Vacationnoun
The act of making legally void.
Recessnoun
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (UK) break, playtime.
Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.Vacationverb
(intransitive) To spend or take a vacation.
This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.Recessnoun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Vacationnoun
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;
we get two weeks of vacation every summerwe took a short holiday in Puerto RicoRecessnoun
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
the recess of the tidesVacationnoun
the act of making something legally void
Recessnoun
(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Vacationverb
spend or take a vacation
Recessnoun
(archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recessnoun
A secret or abstruse part.
the difficulties and recesses of scienceRecessnoun
A sinus.
Recessverb
To inset into something, or to recede.
Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.Recess the screw so it does not stick out.Recessverb
(intransitive) To take or declare a break.
This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.Class will recess for 20 minutes.Recessverb
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Recessverb
To make a recess in.
to recess a wallRecessadjective
Remote, distant (in time or place).
Recessnoun
a state of abeyance or suspended business
Recessnoun
a small concavity
Recessnoun
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Recessnoun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
Recessnoun
a pause from doing something (as work);
we took a 10-minute breakhe took time out to recuperateRecessverb
put into a recess;
recess lightsRecessverb
make a recess in;
recess the piece of woodRecessverb
close at the end of a session;
The court adjourned
