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chase | recess |

In intransitive terms the difference between chase and recess

is that chase is to give chase; to hunt while recess is to take or declare a break.

As nouns the difference between chase and recess

is that chase is the act of one who chases another; a pursuit while recess is a break, pause or vacation.

As verbs the difference between chase and recess

is that chase is to pursue, to follow at speed while recess is to inset into something, or to recede.

As a proper noun Chase

is {{surname|from=nicknames}} from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.

As an adjective recess is

remote, distant (in time or place).

chase

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) chacier, from captio. Akin to catch.

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
  • A hunt.
  • (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
  • * 1996 , Marla Pender McGhee, Quick & Fun Learning Activities for 1 Year Olds (page 25)
    • Some children like to be caught when playing chase , and others do not.
  • * 2009 , Martin J. Levin, We Were Relentless: A Family's Journey to Overcome Disability (page 41)
    • So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.
  • (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  • Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase , / For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
  • (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
  • (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
  • (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
    • Derived terms
    * cut to the chase * wild-goose chase

    Verb

    (chas)
  • To pursue, to follow at speed.
  • To hunt.
  • To give chase; to hunt.
    • to chase around after a doctor
  • (nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
  • To dilute alcohol.
    • Chase vodka with orange juice to make a screwdriver.
  • (cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
    • Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
  • (baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch
    • Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
  • (baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed
    • The rally chased the starter.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "chase")
    Synonyms
    * pursue
    Derived terms
    * chase after * chase one's tail * chase rainbows * chase the dragon
    See also
    * follow

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from (etyl) , from (etyl) chasse, from (etyl) capsa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate making.

    • Etymology 3

    Possibly from obsolete French , from (etyl), from Latin capsa, box. V., variant of “enchase”.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
  • (architecture) A trench or channel for drainpipes or wiring; an hollow space in the wall of a building containing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
  • The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
  • The cavity of a mold.
  • (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

    • Verb

    (chas)
  • To groove; indent.
  • To cut (the thread of a screw).
  • To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    recess

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (countable, or, uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
    • Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
  • * Macaulay
    • The recess of Parliament lasted six weeks.
  • An inset, hole, space or opening.
    • Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
  • * Washington Irving
    • a bed which stood in a deep recess
  • (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
    • Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess .
  • A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
  • (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
    • the recess of the tides
  • * South
    • every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality
  • * Eikon Basilike
    • My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
  • (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.
  • * Dryden
    • Good verse recess and solitude requires.
  • (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
  • * Milton
    • Departure from his happy place, our sweet / Recess , and only consolation left.
  • A secret or abstruse part.
    • the difficulties and recesses of science
  • (botany, zoology) A sinus.

    • Synonyms

    * (a break) break, day off, pause, vacation

    Derived terms

    * recess appointment * recession * recessive

    Verb

    (es)
  • 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.
  • To take or declare a break.
    • This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
    Class will recess for 20 minutes.
  • (informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
  • * 2013 , Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in , ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:
    • 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 make a recess in.
    • to recess a wall

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).
    • 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;

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