Recess vs Indent - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between recess and indent

is that recess is to take or declare a break while indent is to be cut, notched, or dented.

As nouns the difference between recess and indent

is that recess is (countable|or|uncountable) a break, pause or vacation while indent is a cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

As verbs the difference between recess and indent

is that recess is to inset into something, or to recede while indent is to notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

As an adjective recess

is (obsolete|rare) 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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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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indent

English

(wikipedia indent)

Noun

(en noun)

A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

A stamp; an impression.

A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Verb

(en verb)

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

To be cut, notched, or dented.

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.

(historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.

(obsolete) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

*, New York, 2001, p.91:

The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

* South

to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty

(obsolete) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

to indent''' a young man to a shoemaker; to '''indent a servant

(typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.

(obsolete) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

(military, India, dated) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

(Wilhelm)

Antonyms

* unindent * outdent

Anagrams

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