What's the difference between storage and undercroft?

Storage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  • (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
  • (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (3) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (4) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
  • (5) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
  • (6) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
  • (7) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
  • (8) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
  • (9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (10) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
  • (11) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (12) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
  • (13) Also, co-storage of a partially homologous regulatory polypeptide called brain natriuretic polypeptide (BNP) occurs, as has been determined by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay.
  • (14) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (15) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
  • (16) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (17) Investigations of long-term storage of liver, fatty tissue and whole blood in the Environmental Specimen Bank (-85 degrees C and -170 degrees C) showed sufficient stability of HCB and other xenobiotics.
  • (18) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
  • (19) DG activates a kinase called protein kinase C, whereas IP3 mediates the release of Ca2+ from intracellular storage sites.
  • (20) Changes are interpreted primarily in terms of membrane behavior, and implications for storage monitoring are discussed.

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.

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