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Flute vs Recess - What's the difference?

flute | recess |

As verbs the difference between flute and recess

is that flute is while recess is to inset into something, or to recede.

As adjectives the difference between flute and recess

is that flute is reedy (of a voice) while recess is (obsolete|rare) remote, distant (in time or place).

As a noun recess is

(countable|or|uncountable) a break, pause or vacation.

flute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
  • A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  • a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
  • (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  • A long French bread roll.
    • (Simmonds)
  • An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
    • Derived terms
    * pan flute * skin flute
    Related terms
    * flageolet
    See also
    * bansuri

    Verb

  • To play on a .
  • To make a flutelike sound.
  • To utter with a flutelike sound.
  • *
  • To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
    • Related terms
    * champagne flute * flautist * fluted

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "flute") * ----

    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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