What's the difference between cellar and vaultage?

Cellar


Definition:

  • (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.

Vaultage


Definition:

  • (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar.

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