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▸ noun:  (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
▸ noun:  (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
▸ noun:  (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
▸ noun:  (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.
▸ noun:  (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
▸ noun:  (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
▸ noun:  (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
▸ noun:  (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
▸ noun:  (countable, archaic) An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
▸ noun:  (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
▸ noun:  (obsolete)
▸ noun:  (countable) An act of retiring or withdrawing from public life, society, etc.; also, an act of living in retirement or seclusion, or a period of such retirement or seclusion.
▸ noun:  (uncountable)
▸ noun:  Leisure, relaxation.
▸ noun:  The state of being withdrawn.
▸ noun:  (figuratively)
▸ noun:  (countable) A departure from a norm or position.
▸ noun:  (countable) A time interval during which something ceases; an interruption, a respite.
▸ noun:  (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Of a place or time: distant, remote.
▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
▸ verb:  (often architecture)
▸ verb:  To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).
▸ verb:  (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
▸ verb:  (chiefly US, government)
▸ verb:  To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
▸ verb:  (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly US, government)
▸ verb:  Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
▸ verb:  Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
▸ noun:  A village in County Galway, Ireland.

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