<B>recess, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a time during which work stops. <BR> <I>Ex. Our school has an hour's recess at noon. There will be a short recess before the next meeting.</I> (SYN) intermission. <DD><B> 2. </B>a part in a wall, set back from the rest; alcove; niche. <BR> <I>Ex. This long bench will fit nicely in that recess.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an inner place or part; quiet, secluded place. <BR> <I>Ex. the recesses of a cave, (Figurative.) the recesses of one's secret thoughts.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to take a recess. <BR> <I>Ex. The committee recessed for lunch.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put in a recess; set back. <BR> <I>Ex. to recess a window.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a recess in. <BR> <I>Ex. to recess a wall.</I> </DL>
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<B>recession</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action or fact of going backward; moving backward. <DD><B> 2. </B>the action or fact of sloping backward. <DD><B> 3. </B>withdrawal, as of the minister and choir after the service in some churches. <DD><B> 4. </B>a period of temporary business reduction, shorter and less extreme than a depression. <BR> <I>Ex. When the country entered the 1949 recession, many analysts again warned business to batten down the hatches (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>recession</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of ceding back to a former owner. </DL>
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<B>recessional, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a hymn or piece of music sung or played while the clergy and the choir retire from the church at the end of a service. <BR> <I>Ex. The attendant minister pronounced the benediction, the organ played the recessional (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with a recessional. <BR> <I>Ex. a recessional hymn.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with recession. </DL>
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<B>recessional moraine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a terminal moraine formed when a receding glacier halts temporarily. </DL>
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<B>recessionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a business recession. <BR> <I>Ex. He admits himself baffled by the combination of high inflationary symptoms in prices and interest rates with recessionary symptoms in output (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>recessive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>likely to go back; receding. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) of or having to do with a recessive character. <BR> <I>Ex. Blue eyes are recessive in a person, brown eyes dominant. In peas tallness is dominant, dwarfness recessive (Heber W. Youngken).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(of accent) tending to move from one syllable of a word to a syllable nearer the beginning of the word. <BR> <I>Ex. recessive stress is a tendency in current English (Simeon Potter).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Biology.) <B>1. </B>a recessive character or gene. <BR> <I>Ex. In a heterozygote the genes are of two kinds, dominants and recessives (Heber W. Youngken).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an individual possessing or transmitting a recessive character. adv. <B>recessively.</B> noun <B>recessiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>recessive character,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the one of any pair of contrasting characters that is latent or subordinate in an animal or plant when both are present in the germ plasm. (Example:) If a guinea pig inherits a gene for black fur from one parent and a gene for white fur from the other, it will have black fur, as black fur is dominant and white fur is recessive. <BR> <I>Ex. Recessive characters, even in the presence of dominant ones, are quite easily recognized (G. Fulton Roberts).</I> </DL>
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<B>Rechabite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a total abstainer from alcoholic drinks. <BR> <I>Ex. Yet snobs every bit as accomplished are to be found among both Rechabites and non-denominational water-drinkers (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>rechange, </B>verb, <B>-changed,</B> <B>-changing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to change again or anew. <DD><I>noun </I> a second or further change. </DL>
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<B>rechannel, </B>transitive verb, <B>-neled,</B> <B>-neling</B> or (especially British) <B>-nelled,</B> <B>-nelling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to channel in a new form or direction. <BR> <I>Ex. It is difficult to predict whether ... we can measurably rechannel the buying demands of the public (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>recharge, </B>verb, <B>-charged,</B> <B>-charging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to charge again or anew; reload. <BR> <I>Ex. The storage battery is recharged by passing a current through the unit in the reverse direction of the discharge (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a second or additional charge. <BR> <I>Ex. In recent years the artificial recharge of water-bearing strata has been carried out experimentally (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<B>recharter, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to charter again or anew. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a chartering again. <DD><B> 2. </B>a second or additional charter. </DL>
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<B>rechauffe, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a warmed-up dish of food. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a rehash, as of literary material. </DL>
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<B>recheat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic, Hunting.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the calling together of the hounds. <DD><B> 2. </B>a call on the horn to gather the hounds at the beginning or end of a chase. <BR> <I>Ex. The chase was declared to be ended ... when the recheat should be blown (Scott).</I> </DL>
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<B>recheck, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to check again. <DD><I>noun </I> a checking again; double-check. </DL>
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<B>recherche, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>sought after; in great demand; rare. <BR> <I>Ex. The exhibition consists of a recherche choice of the finest productions of their archaic arts ever discovered (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>too studied; far-fetched. </DL>
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<B>rechoose, </B>transitive verb, <B>-chose,</B> <B>-chosen.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to choose again. <BR> <I>Ex. The old-time ceremony of rechoosing a representative (North Star).</I> </DL>
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<B>rechristen, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to christen a second time; rename. </DL>
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<B>recidivate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-vated,</B> <B>-vating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to relapse into crime. <BR> <I>Ex. No sooner did he leave prison, than he recidivated into petty felonies.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to fall back or relapse; return, as to a former state or way of acting. <BR> <I>Ex. Thus then to recidivate, and to go against her own act and promise ... (Lancelot Andrewes).</I> </DL>
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<B>recidivation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a falling back, such as into a former state or way of acting; relapse. <DD><B> 2. </B>the relapse of a criminal into crime. </DL>
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<B>recidivism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a repeated or habitual relapse, especially into crime. <BR> <I>Ex. There is considerable recidivism among some juvenile offenders due to alcoholic liquor (Clyde B. Vedder).</I> </DL>
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<B>recidivist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who relapses, especially a habitual criminal. <BR> <I>Ex. Major Lloyd-George ... described the recidivist, or persistent offender, as "the central problem of any penal system" (London Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of recidivism. <BR> <I>Ex. Nobody can write off the condition of Quebec's jails and Quebec's appalling recidivist rate (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<B>recidivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tendency to relapse, especially into crime. </DL>
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<B>recidivous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> liable to relapse, especially into crime. </DL>
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<B>recipe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a set of directions for preparing something to eat. <BR> <I>Ex. Give me your recipe for cookies.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of directions for doing or preparing anything. <BR> <I>Ex. a recipe for gunpowder.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. a recipe for happiness. Hard work is his recipe for success.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a medical prescription. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=receipt.</B> </DL>
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<B>recipher, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to encipher an already coded message. </DL>
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<B>recipience, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> reception; a receptiveness. </DL>
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<B>recipiency, </B>noun. <B>=recipience.</B></DL>
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<B>recipient, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person or thing that receives something. <BR> <I>Ex. The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> willing to receive; receiving. <BR> <I>Ex. The price charged for surplus would have to be either nil or appreciably lower ... than the commercial price prevailing in the recipient country (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
