Prorogue vs Recess - What's the difference?
prorogue | recess |
(obsolete) To prolong or extend.
*, II.2.6.iv:
*:Mirthprorogues life, whets the wit, makes the body young, lively, and fit for any manner of employment.
To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
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, chapter=20 (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.
* South
* Eikon Basilike
(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.
* 2013 , Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in , ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:
To make a recess in.
(obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).
As verbs the difference between prorogue and recess
is that prorogue is to prolong or extend while recess is to inset into something, or to recede.As a noun recess is
a break, pause or vacation.As an adjective recess is
remote, distant (in time or place).prorogue
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* (to defer) defer, postpone * (to prolong) extend, prolong, protractDerived terms
* prorogate * prorogation * prorogatorSee also
* (Prorogation)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;
