cellar

cellar

Portion of a building beneath ground level, used for utilitarian and storage purposes. It is often called a basement, especially when constructed as part of a foundation. A cellar used for food storage (e.g., a root cellar) may be beneath a house or located outdoors, partly underground, with the upper part mounded over with earth to maintain fairly constant temperature and humidity; the entire enclosure may be concrete, or the floor may be of dirt and the ceiling of timber.

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cellar

1. an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage

2. a place where wine is stored

3. a stock of bottled wines

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cellar [′sel·ər]

(computer science)

push-down storage

(petroleum engineering)

An excavation in the ground for providing additional height between the rig floor and the wellhead to accommodate various well components and provide a place for collecting drainage water and other fluids for subsequent disposal.

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cellar

1. A room (or several rooms, or the entire basement floor) that is partially or entirely below grade; relatively cool in the summer and above freezing in the winter; often used as storage space; provides some thermal insulation airspace between the ground or concrete slab and the flooring of the wood floor above.

2. That part of a building having at least half of its clear height below grade. Also see earth cellar, root cellar, storm cellar, basement.