The difference between Pause and Recess
When used as nouns, pause means a temporary stop or rest, whereas recess means a break, pause or vacation.
When used as verbs, pause means to take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort, whereas recess means to inset into something, or to recede.
Recess is also adjective with the meaning: remote, distant (in time or place).
check bellow for the other definitions of Pause and Recess
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Pause as a verb (intransitive):
To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
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Pause as a verb (intransitive):
To interrupt an activity and wait.
Examples:
"When telling the scary story, he paused for effect."
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Pause as a verb (intransitive):
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
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Pause as a verb (transitive):
To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
Examples:
"to pause a song, a video, or a computer game"
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Pause as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To consider; to reflect.
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Pause as a noun:
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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Pause as a noun:
A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
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Pause as a noun:
Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
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Pause as a noun:
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
Examples:
"Teach the pupil to mind the pauses."
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Pause as a noun:
A break or paragraph in writing.
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Pause as a noun (music):
A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
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Pause as a noun:
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Pause as a noun:
take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
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Recess as a noun (countable, or, uncountable):
A break, pause or vacation.
Examples:
"Spring recess offers a good chance to travel."
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Recess as a noun:
An inset, hole, space or opening.
Examples:
"Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."
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Recess as a noun (US, Australia, Canada):
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; break, playtime.
Examples:
"Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess."
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Recess as a noun:
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Examples:
"rfquotek Brande & C"
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Recess as a noun (archaic):
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
Examples:
"the recess of the tides"
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Recess as a noun (archaic):
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
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Recess as a noun (archaic):
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
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Recess as a noun:
A secret or abstruse part.
Examples:
"the difficulties and recesses of science"
"rfquotek I. Watts"
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Recess as a noun (botany, zoology):
A sinus.
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Recess as a verb:
To inset into something, or to recede.
Examples:
"Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture."
"Recess the screw so it does not stick out."
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Recess as a verb (intransitive):
To take or declare a break.
Examples:
"This court shall recess for its normal two hour lunch now."
"Class will recess for 20 minutes."
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Recess as a verb (transitive, informal):
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
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Recess as a verb:
To make a recess in.
Examples:
"to recess a wall"
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Recess as an adjective (obsolete, rare):
Remote, distant (in time or place).
Examples:
"'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;"