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Cellar vs Underkeep - What's the difference?

cellar | underkeep |

In transitive terms the difference between cellar and underkeep

is that cellar is to store in a cellar while underkeep is to keep or maintain inadequately or below standard.

cellar

English

Alternative forms

* seller (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) celer, (etyl) celier (modern (cellier)), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * cellarage * cellarer * cellar dweller * cyclone cellar * root cellar * storm cellar * wine cellar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 citation
    • , 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. }}

    Etymology 2

    From 15th Century English saler, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • salt cellar

    • Anagrams

    * *

    underkeep

    English

    Verb

  • To keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Like as a fire, the which in hollow caue / Hath long bene vnderkept , and downe supprest, / With murmurous disdaine doth inly raue [...]
  • *1865 , The farmer's magazine - Page 276:
    • It is not economy to overwork or underkeep , or in any wise neglect the farm horse?
  • *1967 , Rudolf Augstein, Der Spiegel: Volume 21, Issues 19-23 :
    • [...] how running himself our President underkeeps with such high animals how the british Queen in Her Majesty's own language.
  • To keep or maintain inadequately or below standard.
  • *2004 , Let's Go, Inc, Let's go: India & Nepal, 2004 - Page 191 :
    • Compared to Colva and Benaulim, Palolem 's accommodations are overpriced and underkept — expect to pay Rs200 in season for the privilege of crashing in a charmless double and using a common bathroom outside.
  • *2011 , Marie Puissant, University of Wisconsin off the record :
    • Most houses on Oakland Ave. have large basements that are underkept .

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An underground reserve.
  • *2007 , Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia's Colors :
    • The earth was swallowing Abascar. "The Underkeeps caved in."
  • A keep or storage space located beneath the foundation of a structure; cellar.
  • *1907 , Léonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley, Lubrication and lubricants :
    • [...] located in the bottom of the driving-box cellars (underkeeps ), a perforated plate being used between the axle and the cake of grease.
  • Any storage space or reservoir placed below another object.
  • *1951 , Railway gazette international: Volume 94:
    • They have sliding underkeeps' of ample oil capacity with pad lubrication and the ' underkeeps are supplied with oil direct from a mechanical lubricator.
  • An underkeeper, guardian, or custodian.
  • *1886 , John Philip Hore, The history of Newmarket :
    • [...] rooms taken up by Mr. Newton one of his Mats Gent ushers for the placing of the Kings Mats wardrobe stuffe for the space of three weeks at Newmarkett To Robert Ford underkeep of his Mats House at Newmarkett in considracon of the want [...]