recess
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state of abeyance or suspended business
Types & categories
- abeyance hypernym
Sense 2 verb
put into a recess
recess lights
Types & categories
- put hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a small concavity
Types & categories
- incurvation hypernym
- pharyngeal recess hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
make a recess in
recess the piece of wood
Types & categories
- indent hypernym
Related & opposite
- recession derivation
Sense 5 noun
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Types & categories
- body of water hypernym
- cove hyponym
- fjord hyponym
- loch hyponym
- Bristol Channel instance hyponym
- Saronic Gulf instance hyponym
- White Sea instance hyponym
- Zuider Zee instance hyponym
Parts & wholes
Sense 6 verb
close at the end of a session
The court adjourned
Types & categories
- end hypernym
Related & opposite
- adjournment derivation
- time out derivation
Sense 7 noun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- recess derivation
Sense 8 noun
a pause from doing something (as work)
we took a 10-minute break
Types & categories
- pause hypernym
- spring break hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | abeyance |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | niche |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recession |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | put |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recess |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recess |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tree |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | incurvation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pharyngeal recess |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | recession |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | indent |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | lake |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | sea |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | body of water |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | cove |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | fjord |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | loch |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Bristol Channel |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Saronic Gulf |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | White Sea |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Zuider Zee |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | adjournment |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | time out |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | end |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | recess |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | enclosure |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | alcove |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | apse |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | cinerarium |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | fireplace |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | mihrab |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | adjourn |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | intermit |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | pause |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | spring break |