What's the difference between croft and undercroft?
Croft
Definition:
(n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
Example Sentences:
(1) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(2) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(3) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
(4) Cameron returns to the image of Lara Croft to explain that his modernisation of the Tory party will not lead to a second wave of Thatcherism.
(5) Starting from the northernmost point of the island, it follows a varied course along high sea-cliffs and mountain ridges, taking in low lying crofts, villages deserted many years ago by the Highland Clearances, and modern day settlements, and gives a real taste of the island, its landscape, culture and heritage.
(6) Sold , the shocking rape story of Zana Muhsen, has shifted 5m copies and, Crofts believes, created a new market for books such as Jane Elliott's The Little Prisoner .
(7) Joining us for a live webchat from is Hanne Albert , the Danish woman who made the discovery, and Peter Hamlyn, the consultant spine surgeon who recently operated on rugby player Tom Croft, and deems the significance of the discovery as "vast."
(8) The conclusions of this study may be summarized as follows: (1) there is no transdielectric charge separation apparent in the redox reactions between Qz and cytochrome bL, 2Fe2S and cytochrome c1 (in agreement with Glaser, E. and Crofts, A.R.
(9) When Robert Harris read this as part of his research for The Ghost , he sought permission to quote some of Crofts's obiter dicta ("Of all the advantages that ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity to meet people of interest") as chapter-heads.
(10) Chapman and Chapman (Disordered Thought in Schizophrenia, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1973) have suggested that findings of abstract thinking deficits in schizophrenia could be functions of control task artifacts.
(11) Huthart, who is British, worked with Jolie on movies including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Salt and Mr and Mrs Smith.
(12) For services to Crofting in the Highlands and Islands.
(13) And maybe Amélie, being another calm, strong woman can add to that.” Annabel Croft, the tennis commentator and former British No 1, says: ‘He definitely likes the way she works.
(14) For generations, these winter winds have been a trial for the crofting and fishing communities which are strung along the coastline.
(15) During the summer there are regular guided rambles around the traditional Highland estate (a mix of farmed croft land, wood and moorland) and from Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh, but it's worth keeping an eye out for special events and themed walks throughout the year.
(16) Crofts has written some 80 books, sold more than 10m copies and appeared a dozen times in UK bestseller lists.
(17) Commentary for both broadcasters will come from David Croft and Tony Green.
(18) This beach is overlooked by a cluster of crofts and cottages with views across the Atlantic to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
(19) Annabel Croft was the last British winner of the girls’ title in 1984, while Laura Robson reached the final in 2009 and 2010 after winning the junior title at Wimbledon in 2008 .
(20) This is Stokes Croft, the gloriously bohemian corner of Bristol that has become a byword for the fight against the so-called "Big Four": Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons – and, of course, Tesco.
Undercroft
Definition:
(n.) A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(2) It was Lansley who had the audacious idea of opening up the station's undercroft - once used to store barrels of beer that were brought down in their hundreds of thousands by goods trains from Burton-on-Trent - to create a visual connection and passenger link between this vast basement and the newly restored iron-and-glass arched roof so very high above it.
(3) Objections have been plentiful ranging from English Heritage to the community of skateboarders who for decades have been drawn to the complex's smooth concrete undercrofts.
(4) The Queen has given permission for Tony Benn to become the second politician in history – after Margaret Thatcher – to rest in parliament's chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the eve of his funeral.
(5) It is hard to believe that all this might not have existed, as you walk into St Pancras today through brand new gothic doors and enter the station's previously unseen undercroft, the former storage basement with its 800 Victorian iron pillars, where the Eurostar ticket-machines, check-in points and security controls are today, before riding long, silent escalators up to the trains basking beneath Barlow and Ordish's glorious roof.
(6) Plans to replace the Undercroft space with new arts venues and retail outlets were scuttled after public outcry.
(7) He said the graffiti in the South Bank undercroft used by skateboarders added “social communal value” to the space.
(8) Eurostar platforms and undercroft aside, works include a new concrete station beneath St Pancras for the Bedford to Brighton services, connecting the terminus with Luton and Gatwick airports; a modernised and vastly extended London Underground station at King's Cross St Pancras; new regional train platforms for the Midland main line and future services, aboard Japanese-built "bullet trains", to Stratford and Kent; the restoration and extension of Scott's hotel into a five-star Marriott Renaissance; the construction of a new gothic wing by Richard Griffiths and RHWL architects as an extension to the hotel; and flats in the upper floors of the old Midland Grand converted by the Manhattan Loft Corporation.
(9) A common walkway passes through the Eurostar undercroft.
(10) Citing the success of the recent Long Live Southbank campaign to preserve the skate park, as backed by Boris Johnson , Cooper says graffiti adds “social communal value” to the Undercroft space – though he is quick to point out that the mayor’s office are in no rush to change the law.