Angle vs Recess - What's the difference?
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(senseid)(geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
(senseid)(geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
A corner where two walls intersect.
A change in direction.
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(media) The focus of a news story.
(slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
(slang) A scheme; a means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, possibly illegal.
A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
* Dryden
(astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
(often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
(informal) To change direction rapidly.
(informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
(snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
(informal) (with for ) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(countable, or, uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
* Macaulay
An inset, hole, space or opening.
* Washington Irving
(US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
* Sir M. Hale
* Dryden
(archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
* Milton
A secret or abstruse part.
(botany, zoology) A sinus.
To inset into something, or to recede.
To take or declare a break.
(informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
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To make a recess in.
(obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).
As nouns the difference between angle and recess
is that angle is while recess is (countable|or|uncountable) a break, pause or vacation.As a verb recess is
to inset into something, or to recede.As an adjective recess is
(obsolete|rare) remote, distant (in time or place).angle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) angle, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle . Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."
- though but an angle reached him of the stone
Synonyms
* (corner) corner * (change in direction) swerve * (vertex) -gon (as per hexagon) * (viewpoint) opinion, perspective, point of view, slant, view, viewpointDerived terms
* acute angle * acute-angled * angle quote * angle bracket * central angle * complementary angle * dihedral angle * exterior angle * interior angle * oblique angle * obtuse-angled * opposite angle * pentangle * plane angle * play the angles * quadrangle * rectangle * right angle * round angle * solid angle * straight angle * supplementary angle * triangle * vertical angleSee also
* arcminute * arcsecond * degree * gradian * radianVerb
(angl)- The roof is angled at 15 degrees.
- The five ball angled off the nine ball but failed to reach the pocket.
- How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(angl)- He must be angling for a pay rise.
Derived terms
* *Noun
(en noun)- Give me mine angle : we'll to the river there.
- A fisher next his trembling angle bears.
Anagrams
* ----recess
English
Noun
(es)- Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
- The recess of Parliament lasted six weeks.
- Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
- a bed which stood in a deep recess
- Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess .
- the recess of the tides
- every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality
- My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
- In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.
- Good verse recess and solitude requires.
- Departure from his happy place, our sweet / Recess , and only consolation left.
- the difficulties and recesses of science
Synonyms
* (a break) break, day off, pause, vacationDerived terms
* recess appointment * recession * recessiveVerb
(es)- 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 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."
- to recess a wall
Adjective
(head)- Thomas Salusbury: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:''''' ''I should think it best in the subsequent discourses to begin to examine whether the Earth be esteemed immoveable, as it hath been till now believed by most men, or else moveable, as some ancient Philosophers held, and others of not very '''recesse times were of opinion;
