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cellar

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Tour Montparnasse should be loaded from cellar to attic with excessive amounts of explosives and be put out of its misery.

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Quick take

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cellar gathered in one view.

noun

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.

noun

A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.

noun

salt cellar

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cellar.

Example sentences

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Tour Montparnasse should be loaded from cellar to attic with excessive amounts of explosives and be put out of its misery.

2

Heck, I used to read Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column out of interest, even though I was not into electronics.

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Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar articles in Byte, and later his magazine.

4

Was this a dusty old server in the cellar running unpatched Windows 2008 and an old version of Exchange, or was it a hardened and well-managed system?

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However, almost everyone had a storm shelter -- typically a cellar dug in the side of a hill (they get a lot of powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes).

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- Go to a winery, ideally one at which you can spend some time in the wine cellar and/or chai.

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That is just a rat-infested cellar of literature.

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Debt that needs to be served with more debt (there is no treasure box in the cellar of General Motors that they can use to build car manufacturing plants).

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I could see them doubling as a bomb shelter back in the day, but I never heard them referred to as anything but a storm cellar.

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I went out nearly every morning to work in fields, spent days in cellar and did just few hours of programming per week to pay my bills.

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I walked by the neighbour's root cellar to get some of his home brew beer, and fried the mushrooms (chanterelles) and the spinach, boiled the potatoes and scrambled the eggs.

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At 26 I figured computer graphics where much more fun than running quantum physical simulations in a lonely cellar and began my software engineering career.

Quote examples

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To be honest, we don't want Pyret to stay in the "education cellar" forever.

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-I"/usr/local/Cellar/erlang/17.3.4/lib/erlang/lib/erl_interface-3.7.19/include" -I"/usr/local/Cellar/erlang/17.3.4/lib/erlang/erts-6.2.1/include" I don't know if this issue befalls on the erlang distribution (homebrew) on my system, rebar or ecirca..

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So when journalists try to frame the narrative as "cellar-dwelling young male mouthbreathers vs a shocked and innocent victim of disgusting sexism" - that's heavy-handed editorialising at best, and plain bullshit at worst.

Proper noun examples

1

My favorite part was Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar.

2

Yes, without unlinking, some people are probably going to experience this effect: >brew install tmux Warning: tmux-1.9a already installed Then again: >brew unlink tmux Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/tmux/1.9a...

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/usr/local/Cellar/wget) and then symlinked into the Homebrew prefix (eg.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cellar in a sentence?

Tour Montparnasse should be loaded from cellar to attic with excessive amounts of explosives and be put out of its misery.

What does cellar mean?

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.

What part of speech is cellar?

cellar is commonly used as noun, verb.