Recess vs. Test — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Recess and Test
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Definitions
Recess
A temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit
The chairman of the committee called for a recess until Thursday.
Test
A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial
A test of one's eyesight.
Subjecting a hypothesis to a test.
A test of an athlete's endurance.
Recess
A period in the school day during which students are given time to play or relax.
Test
A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.
Recess
Often recesses A remote, secret, or secluded place
A bird that lives deep in the recesses of the forest.
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Test
A basis for evaluation or judgment
"A test of democratic government is how Congress and the president work together" (Haynes Johnson).
Recess
An indentation or small hollow
Dirt accumulated in the recesses of the statue.
Test
(Chemistry) A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.
Recess
An alcove.
Test
A cupel.
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Recess
To place in a recess.
Test
A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.
Recess
To create or fashion a recess in
Recessed a portion of the wall.
Test
To subject to a test; try
Tested the pen by scribbling on scrap paper.
Testing job applicants.
Recess
To suspend for a recess
The committee chair recessed the hearings.
Test
To reveal the degree of (a given quality) in someone or something by or as if by means of a test
The experiment tested the rats' ability to solve spatial problems. The long war tested the country's resolve.
Recess
To take a recess
The investigators recessed for lunch.
Test
To identify the presence or amount of one or more substances in
Tested the water for lead.
Recess
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back.
The recess of the tides
Test
To identify the amount of (a substance) in something
Tested the nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil.
Recess
The state of being withdrawn.
Test
To ascertain the properties of
Tested the steel for hardness and tensile strength.
Recess
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Test
To assay (metal) in a cupel.
Recess
A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
Test
To undergo a test.
Recess
An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.
Test
To administer a test
Test for acid content.
Test for the presence of an antibody.
Recess
A remote, secret or abstruse place.
The difficulties and recesses of science
Test
To achieve a score or rating on tests
Tested high on the entrance exams.
Recess
A break, pause or vacation.
Spring recess offers a good chance to travel.
Test
To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test
Test positive for the tubercle bacillus.
Recess
(government) A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
Test
A challenge, trial.
Recess
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.
Test
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Recess
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Test
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
Recess
(transitive) 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.
Test
A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
Recess
(transitive) To make a recess in.
To recess a wall
Test
A Test match.
Recess
To place in a recess.
Test
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Recess
To take or declare a break.
Class will recess for 20 minutes.
Test
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Recess
(transitive) To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
Test
(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Recess
To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.
This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now.
Test
(obsolete) A witness.
Recess
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Test
Testosterone
Recess
Remote, distant.
Test
To challenge.
Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
Recess
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, 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.
Test
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Recess
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
Test
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
To test the soundness of a principle
To test the validity of an argument
Recess
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school; as, the children were allowed to play in the school yard during recess.
The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks.
Test
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
Recess
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
A bed which stood in a deep recess.
Test
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
Recess
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Departure from this happy place, our sweetRecess, and only consolation left.
Test
(copulative) To be shown to be by test.
He tested positive for cancer.
Recess
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science; the deepest recesses of the mind.
Test
(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
To test a solution by litmus paper
Recess
A sinus.
Test
To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
Recess
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Test
To make a testament, or will.
Recess
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Test
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Our ingots, tests, and many mo.
Recess
A state of abeyance or suspended business
Test
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Recess
A small concavity
Test
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Each test every light her muse will bear.
Recess
An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
Test
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Recess
An enclosure that is set back or indented
Test
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
Recess
A pause from doing something (as work);
We took a 10-minute break
He took time out to recuperate
Test
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Who would excel, when few can make a testBetwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Recess
Put into a recess;
Recess lights
Test
A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
Recess
Make a recess in;
Recess the piece of wood
Test
A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results.
I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation.
Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune,Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace,Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.
Recess
Close at the end of a session;
The court adjourned
Test
A witness.
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
Test
The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
Test
The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Test
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Test
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Test
To administer a test to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.
Test
To make a testament, or will.
Test
Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc;
The test was standardized on a large sample of students
Test
The act of testing something;
In the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately
He called each flip of the coin a new trial
Test
The act of undergoing testing;
He survived the great test of battle
Candidates must compete in a trial of skill
Test
Trying something to find out about it;
A sample for ten days free trial
A trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain
Test
A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge;
When the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions
Test
A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins
Test
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
This approach has been tried with good results
Test this recipe
Test
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
Screen the blood for the HIV virus
Test
Examine someone's knowledge of something;
The teacher tests us every week
We got quizzed on French irregular verbs
Test
Show a certain characteristic when tested;
He tested positive for HIV
Test
Achieve a certain score or rating on a test;
She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools
Test
Determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
Test
Undergo a test;
She doesn't test well
