cellar vs attic
Definitions
noun
- an excavation where root vegetables are stored
- the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
- storage space where wines are stored
Examples
The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike ....
Jim Devine said the £2326 of "joinery" was for storing personal and party political material in a pub cellar he was renting.
In deep cellars stocked with winter ice the temperature was kept below eight degrees.
Definitions
noun
- the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
adjective
- of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
Examples
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.
