(n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(2) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(3) It was happening in the cellars of Paris during the occupation in terms of jazz records.
(4) From six captures of Drosophila melanogaster carried out in three different habitats (cellar, vineyard, and pinewood) in two different seasons of the year (spring and autumn), 60 eye-colour mutations were isolated, which were reduced to 29 loci by means of allelism tests within and between populations.
(5) In Walsden, Abbi Blackburn was left stranded in her home after five feet of water poured into her cellar.
(6) Marshall has also established that the cellars regularly flooded disastrously: he began his own work in the building standing in a foot of foetid water.
(7) The EU has so far insisted that the UK cannot offset its share of European Union assets, such as buildings, or indeed the commission’s generous wine cellar, from the bill.
(8) Hence Riva's ordeal in the bathroom, and another almost unwatchable moment that corresponds to the revelation of Mrs Bates rotting in the fruit cellar.
(9) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(10) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
(11) A staircase descends steeply into a network of tunnels and cellars that lead to extraordinary old chalk pits.
(12) The air breathed by three cellar workers was monitored continuously during working hours for one wk.
(13) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(14) More sybaritically, there is a wine cellar, and a tunnel to the Mandarin Oriental through which meals can be served.
(15) A total number of nearly 100 houses were investigated in Angera; the highest radon concentrations were observed in cellars and especially in the areas where fractures are bigger and more diffuse.
(16) This government was right to examine quangos: if we can't afford universal child benefit, we can't afford committees advising on what wine to buy for government cellars (although if governments want drinks parties, somebody must buy drink).
(17) As well as outlining the property bought in each case, each lease document also specifies which area of the development's wine cellar the buyer is entitled to.
(18) Elsewhere in town, I was reviewing a young double-act called Mitchell and Webb, and – performing in a cellar – a promising character comic, Catherine Tate.
(19) 6.4.1994 Emmerdale ablaze When someone points to a box of fireworks and says, "They should be in the cellar", you know the whole place is about to go up in a dazzling racket of rockets.
(20) I found a section on shocking revenge acts – like kidnapping the son of a mafioso, keeping him hostage in a cellar for two years, then strangling him.
Ocellar
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Four of these are numerous (retinula axons symapsing onto thick ocellar nerve fibres or onto thin ocellar fibres; thin ocellar nerve fibres synapsing onto thick ocellar nerve fibres or onto other thin ocellar fibres).
(2) Direct interactions between the ocelli and compound eyes are suggested by the projections of small ocellar interneurons into the proximal lobula.
(3) The central projections of the ocellar nerves from the intracranial ocelli also exhibit histamine-like immunoreactivity.
(4) The overall synaptic configurations are discussed in terms of the varied response characteristics of units in the ocellar nerve.
(5) The projections of ocellar fibres within the brain and thorax of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, were established using a modified cobalt sulphide technique, supplemented by serial sectioning of the brain for the light microscope.
(6) Electrophysiological recordings confirm the hyperpolarizing and localized action of histamine onto dendrites of second-order neurons in the ocellar cup.
(7) In addition to duplications of cuticular epithelia, extra glial cells, muscle fibers, and ocellar interneurons are sometimes found in extra-eye bearing flies.
(8) These results suggest that locust ocellar photoreceptors contain histamine and release it upon depolarization.
(9) Ocellar-mediated postsynaptic potentials influenced the firing of thoracic interneurons only if they arrived during the proper phase of rhythmic drive.
(10) There are 17 large 1st-order ocellar interneurons (Figs.
(11) rdgBKS222 and rgdAPC47 mutants are essentially normal with respect to structure and survival of ocellar receptors and synapses.
(12) The ocellar potential (OP) of planaria was recorded using microelectrode techniques.
(13) The small lateral ocellar neurons associated with these arborizations have cell bodies adjacent to the lateral ocellar tracts.
(14) It is present at high levels only in photoreceptor cell terminations, glomerulae of the antennal lobes, and the ocellar retina.
(15) All deltex alleles behave as recessive viables affecting wing, ocellar and eye morphology.
(16) Immunoreactivity of different intensity is found in the non-glomerular neuropil around the mushroom bodies, in the lateral protocerebrum, the central body, the optic tubercles, the lobula and medulla of optic lobe, the ocellar neuropil, in multiglomerular elements of the antennal lobes and in the dorsal deuterocerebrum.
(17) This collateral arborizes almost immediately in a region receiving input from arborizations of a number of small ocellar neurons (those less than 5 micrometer in diameter) from the ipsilateral ocellar nerve, together with small neurons from the median ocellar nerve, forming a region in each half of the brain which receives input from all three ocelli.
(18) No ocellar processes appear to be given off to the corpora pedunculata, central body, nervi corporis cardiaci, antennal lobes, or circumesophageal connectives; it is uncertain whether ocellar collaterals extend into the protocerebral bridge or optic lobes.
(19) Within each half of the posterior neuropil, two spatially separated regions of ocellar input have been identified.
(20) Anatomically, the sensory cells of the dorsal ocellus of Tenodera were determined histologically to be grouped into two distinct regions, each group making its own separate contribution to the ocellar nerve.