Recess vs Embed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between recess and embed

is that recess is a break, pause or vacation while embed is an embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

As verbs the difference between recess and embed

is that recess is to inset into something, or to recede while embed is to lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

As an adjective recess

is remote, distant (in time or place).

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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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

Anagrams

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embed

English

Alternative forms

* imbed

Verb

(embedd)

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

(by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.

(computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).

The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.

(mathematics) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.

The torus $S^1\times S^1$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ .

Noun

(en noun)

An embedded reporter/journalist: a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.

An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.

* 1992 , Sammy Richard Danna, Advertising and Popular Culture

He alleges that ads for Seagram's gin, Chivas Regal scotch, Bacardi rum, Sprite soda, Camel and Kent cigarettes, Tweed perfume, Kanon cologne and myriad other products include embeds surreptitiously placed to induce purchase.

(computing) An item embedded in another document.

* 2006 , Richard Rutter, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Blog Design Solutions

When you change the content of these embeds , this information will be automatically updated in every page that the embeds are included in.

* 2011 , Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton, HTML5 Canvas (page 265)

Adding controls, looping, and autoplay to an HTML5 video embed is simple.

External links

* (wikipedia "embed")