The difference between Recess and Test

When used as nouns, recess means a break, pause or vacation, whereas test means a challenge, trial.

When used as verbs, recess means to inset into something, or to recede, whereas test means to challenge.

Recess is also adjective with the meaning: remote, distant (in time or place).

check bellow for the other definitions of Recess and Test

Recess as a noun (countable, or, uncountable):

A break, pause or vacation.

Examples:

"Spring recess offers a good chance to travel."
Recess as a noun:

An inset, hole, space or opening.

Examples:

"Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."
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."
Recess as a noun:

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Examples:

"rfquotek Brande & C"
Recess as a noun (archaic):

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

Examples:

"the recess of the tides"
Recess as a noun (archaic):

The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recess as a noun (archaic):

A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recess as a noun:

A secret or abstruse part.

Examples:

"the difficulties and recesses of science"

"rfquotek I. Watts"
Recess as a noun (botany, zoology):

A sinus.

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."
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."
Recess as a verb (transitive, informal):

To appoint, with a recess appointment.
Recess as a verb:

To make a recess in.

Examples:

"to recess a wall"

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;"

Test as a noun:

A challenge, trial.
Test as a noun:

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Test as a noun (academia):

An examination, given often during the academic term.
Test as a noun:

A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
Test as a noun (cricket, normally “[[Test]]”):

A Test match.
Test as a noun (marine biology):

The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
Test as a noun (botany):

Testa; seed coat.
Test as a noun (obsolete):

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Test as a verb:

To challenge.

Examples:

"Climbing the mountain tested our stamina."
Test as a verb:

To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test as a verb:

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

Examples:

"to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument"
Test as a verb (academics):

To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
Test as a verb:

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
Test as a verb (copulative):

To be shown to be by test.

Examples:

"He tested positive for cancer."
Test as a verb (chemistry):

To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

Examples:

"to test a solution by litmus paper"

Test as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
Test as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

To make a testament, or will.