To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
To take or declare a break.
To appoint, with a recess appointment.
To make a recess in.
To inset into something, or to recede.
To place in a recess.
To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.
A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
A remote, secret or abstruse place.
A break, pause or vacation.
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
To request or accept a rain check (an agreement from a merchant to honor a special offer, temporarily unavailable, after the expiration date).
In social interactions, to request a deferral of an invitation. To "take a rain check" is a polite way to turn down an engagement, usually with the implication that one is simply postponing it and another time might be acceptable.