recess vs stop

recess and stop both are nouns.

recess and stop both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recess	Yes	No	Yes	No
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, stop is a hypernym of recess; that is, stop is a word with a broader meaning than recess:

recess: close at the end of a session
stop: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Other hypernyms of recess include cease, end, finish, terminate.

recess (noun)	stop (noun)
a pause from doing something (as work)	the act of stopping something
an enclosure that is set back or indented	a brief stay in the course of a journey
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)	a restraint that checks the motion of something
a small concavity	an obstruction in a pipe or tube
a state of abeyance or suspended business	a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
	(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
	a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the event of something ending
	a spot where something halts or pauses
	the state of inactivity following an interruption

recess (verb)	stop (verb)
close at the end of a session	prevent completion
make a recess in	stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
put into a recess	hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
	seize on its way
	render unsuitable for passage
	come to a halt, stop moving
	cause to end
	interrupt a trip
	stop from happening or developing
	put an end to a state or an activity
	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Difference between recess and stop

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