1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. recessed

Find the word definition

What is "recessed"

Crossword clues for recessed

recessed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recessed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ recessed lighting
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Benches with reversible tops give the option of either a smooth surface or recessed gravel trays for summer and are particularly useful.
▪ Embossing relief images formed by using a recessed die.
▪ Many spotlights, recessed lights and other modern fittings are designed to take internally-silvered reflector lamps.
▪ My chest ached with a child's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three.
▪ Special recessed covers are available which allow you to fit a permanent floor covering.
▪ These are concealed either within the fitting's baseplate or within the recessed connection box.
▪ These should fit into the well of the recessed window and have a flange which overlaps the edge of the well.
▪ They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts, and are easily removed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recessed

Recess \Re*cess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Recessing.] To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

Recessed

Recessed \Re*cessed"\ (r[-e]*s[e^]st"), a.

  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

  2. Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] ``Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.''
    --Miss Edgeworth.

    Recessed arch (Arch.), one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

Wiktionary
recessed

  1. 1 set back; located in a hole, space, or opening. 2 withdrawn; secluded v

  2. (en-past of: recess)

WordNet
recessed

  1. adj. having a sunken area; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look" [syn: deep-set, sunken]

  2. resembling an alcove

Usage examples of "recessed".

Behind the drapes, Tyson knew, was a large recessed area, the presbytery, where the high altar sat beneath a large cross.

The noise seemed to be coming from a large recessed alcove that lay ahead on the right.

The sarcophagus was recessed in a niche, obscured from this oblique angle.

It was a nondescript building made from a high-density metal stone amalgamation with slim recessed vertical windows, the kind of office block that would be rented by a small company going nowhere.

Court was recessed until Thursday, November 19, at which time each of the defense attorneys argued the standard motions to dismiss.

After the defense had introduced their exhibits, Judge Older recessed court for ten days to give the attorneys time to prepare their jury instructions and arguments.

Like almost every building in Bekla it was of stone, its long rows of recessed bays cool and dusky, the whole place echoing whenever a door slammed or a crate was grounded by the winch.

At its far end they came to another closed door, ornately carved, with recessed panels and a great latch of bronze, the stop cast to resemble a hound and the fall-bar a bone clenched in its jaws.

A touch-tone phone, with a cord running into the wall, on a horizontal surface in a recessed alcove near the front door.

Around the circumference of the balcony were thirty or so gray couches, slightly recessed into archways studded with gray medical equipment.

A set of four broad stone steps led up to the recessed space in front of the door, flanked by two life-size carvings.