Definition of 'cellar'
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cellar
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cellar in British English
noun
verb
4. (transitive)
to store in a cellar
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Word origin
C13: from Anglo-French, from Latin cellārium food store, from cella cellaWord Frequency
cellar in American English
noun
1.
a room or group of rooms below the ground level and usually under a building, often used for storing fuel, provisions, or wines
2.
a stock of wines kept in such a cellar
verb transitive
3.
to store in a cellar
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cellar in the Oil and Gas Industry
(sɛlər)
Word forms: (regular plural) cellars
noun
(Extractive engineering: Field development, Drilling)
A cellar is a pit dug below the platform of a drilling rig.
The cellar is needed to accommodate casing and drilling accessories that will be installed under
the rig.
A cellar is a dug-out area below a rig that houses the top part of the casing.
COBUILD Key Words for the Oil and Gas Industry. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
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the upper part of a column or pier that supports the entablature
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a curved ornamental moulding, esp one having the shape of an ogee arch
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the top of a roof at the junction of two sloping sides
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a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
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cellar
British English: cellar
/ˈsɛlə/ NOUN
A cellar is a room underneath a building.
The box of papers had been stored in a cellar at the family home.
- American English: cellar /ˈsɛlər/
- Arabic: قَبْو
- Brazilian Portuguese: cave
- Chinese: 地窖
- Croatian: podrum
- Czech: sklep
- Danish: kælder
- Dutch: kelder
- European Spanish: sótano almacenamiento
- Finnish: kellari
- French: cave
- German: Keller
- Greek: κελάρι
- Italian: cantina
- Japanese: 地下室
- Korean: 지하실
- Norwegian: kjeller
- Polish: piwnica
- European Portuguese: cave
- Romanian: pivniță
- Russian: погреб
- Latin American Spanish: sótano
- Swedish: källare
- Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน
- Turkish: mahzen
- Ukrainian: льох
- Vietnamese: hầm chứa
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