Cellar vs Cellular - What's the difference?
cellar | cellular |
An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter.
A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
(slang) Last place in a competition.
(historical) A small dish for holding salt.
To store in a cellar.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 25, author=Lucy Burningham, title=Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait, work=New York Times
, passage=Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10. }}
Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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, title=Well-connected Brains
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As nouns the difference between cellar and cellular
is that cellar is an enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter while cellular is a cellular phone (mobile phone).As a verb cellar
is to store in a cellar.As an adjective cellular is
of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.cellar
English
Alternative forms
* seller (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) celer, (etyl) celier (modern (cellier)), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cellarage * cellarer * cellar dweller * cyclone cellar * root cellar * storm cellar * wine cellarVerb
(en verb)citation
Etymology 2
From 15th Century English saler, from (etyl)Anagrams
* *cellular
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.}}
