Recess vs Counter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between recess and counter

is that recess is (countable|or|uncountable) a break, pause or vacation while counter is an object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc or counter can be (nautical) the overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline or counter can be (obsolete) an encounter.

As verbs the difference between recess and counter

is that recess is to inset into something, or to recede while counter is to contradict, oppose.

As adjectives the difference between recess and counter

is that recess is (obsolete|rare) remote, distant (in time or place) while counter is contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.

As an adverb counter is

contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction or counter can be in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.

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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

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counter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (French (m)), from .

Noun

(en noun)

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

* He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

* He put his money on the counter , and the shopkeeper put it in the till.

One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.

* He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter - he can count to 100.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.

(grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.

(wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

* Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.

(computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

(computing, Internet) A hit counter.

Derived terms

* bean counter * counter batten * countertop * hit counter * over the counter * program counter * rivet counter

Etymology 2

From (etyl) contre, (etyl) cuntre, both from (etyl) contra.

Adverb

(-)

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

* Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks .

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.

(by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

* 1959 , , Seymour: An Introduction :

Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face [...].

Etymology 3

From counter- .

Verb

(en verb)

To contradict, oppose.

(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

* His left hand countered provokingly. - C. Kingsley

To take action in response to; to respond.

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Adjective

(-)

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.

His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.

* I. Taylor

Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.

Derived terms

* counter agent * counter fugue * counter current * counter revolution * counter poison : See also:

Adverb

(-)

In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.

* John Locke

running counter to all the rules of virtue

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

a hound that runs counter

* Shakespeare

This is counter , you false Danish dogs!

At or against the front or face.

* Sandys

which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An encounter.

* Spenser

with kindly counter under mimic shade

(nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

(music) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

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