Recess vs Quiescent - What's the difference?
recess | quiescent |
(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(archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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).
Inactive, at rest, quiet.
* Professor Wilson
(grammar) Not sounded; silent.
As adjectives the difference between recess and quiescent
is that recess is (obsolete|rare) remote, distant (in time or place) while quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet.As a noun recess
is (countable|or|uncountable) a break, pause or vacation.As a verb recess
is to inset into something, or to recede.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;
Anagrams
* ----quiescent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
- In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
- The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".
