Dent vs Recess - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between dent and recess

is that dent is to develop a dent or dents while recess is to take or declare a break.

As nouns the difference between dent and recess

is that dent is a shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact while recess is a break, pause or vacation.

As verbs the difference between dent and recess

is that dent is to impact something, producing a dent while recess is to inset into something, or to recede.

As an adjective recess is

remote, distant (in time or place).

dent

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) . More at dint.

Noun

(en noun)

A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.

The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.

(by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action

That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.

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Verb

(en verb)

To impact something, producing a dent.

To develop a dent or dents.

''Copper is soft and dents easily.

Etymology 2

(etyl), from (etyl) dens, dentis, tooth. See tooth.

Noun

(en noun)

(engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

(Knight)

Anagrams

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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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.

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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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