Crossword clues for crypt
crypt
- "Tales From the ___"
- Vampire's home, perhaps
- Underground burial chamber
- Subterranean vault
- Sarcophagus holder
- Room below church
- "Tales From the __": '50s horror comic
- Underground meeting place
- TV's "Tales From the ___"
- Subterranean chamber
- Setting for the narration of some horror tales
- Secretive burial place
- Pyramid function
- Necromancer's haunt
- Misfits "Cuts From the ___"
- It may be no one's vault but your own
- Haunted house room
- Eerie meeting site
- Dead room?
- Classic horror film locale
- Chamber in a vampire movie
- Buriel chamber
- "Tales From the ___" (former HBO horror series)
- "Tales From the ________"
- -ogram opener
- Underground chamber
- Undercroft
- Look like a creep
- Burial chamber
- Burial vault
- Place of rest
- A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
- Remains here?
- TV's "Tales from the _____"
- Underground vault
- Vault beneath a church
- Church vault
- Church basement
- Weep over pint in church cellar
- Keen, being on time to clinch the lead in pole vault
- Loudly announce point in cellar
- Underground room in church
- Underground chapel
- Underground cell like this crossword, mostly
- Cathedral feature
- Burial place
- Mummy's place
- Mummy's home
- Church cellar
- Cemetery feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crypt \Crypt\ (kr[i^]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.]
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A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning.
--Motley.My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.
--Tennyson. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk["u]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "grotto, cavern," from Latin crypta "vault, cavern," from Greek krypte (short for krypte kamara "hidden vault"), fem. of kryptos "hidden," verbal adjective from kryptein "to hide," from PIE *krau- "to conceal, hide" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic kryjo, kryti "to hide"). Meaning "underground burial vault or chapel in a church" first attested 1789.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. 2 (context anatomy English) A small pit or cavity in the body
WordNet
n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Wikipedia
A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.
Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church, such as at the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre, but were later located beneath chancel, naves and transepts as well. Occasionally churches were raised high to accommodate a crypt at the ground level, such as St Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany.
Crypt may refer to:
- Crypt, a stone chamber
- Cryptography, the study of techniques for secure communication
- Crypt Records, a record label
- The Crypt (film), a 2009 horror film
- Crypts, a fictional alien race in The Man from Nowhere, a Dan Dare story
- The Crypt (Kings Island), a HUSS Giant Top Spin formerly located at Kings Island amusement park and originally named Tomb Raider: The Ride
- The Crypt (Kings Dominion), a HUSS Floorless Top Spin at Kings Dominion amusement park and formerly named Tomb Raider: Firefall
- The Crypt School a Grammar School in Gloucester, England
- The Crypt, a blog hosted by Politico
- A misspelling, someone that is a member of the " Crips" gang
In medicine:
- Crypt (anatomy), a type of anatomical structure
- Crypts of Lieberkühn, anatomical crypts that occur in the intestinal tract
- Cryptorchidism, the absence of one or both testes from the scrotum
In botany:
- A colloquial name for Cryptocoryne, a genus of plants
- The abbreviation for the orchid genus Cryptopus
In computer science:
- Crypt (Unix), a cryptographic utility program in Unix
- Crypt (C), a standard library function in C
In Unix computing, crypt is a utility program used for encryption. Due to the ease of breaking it, it is considered to be obsolete.
Crypts are anatomical structures that are narrow but deep invaginations into a larger structure.
One common type of anatomical crypt is the Crypts of Lieberkühn. However, it is not the only type: some types of tonsils also have crypts. Because these crypts allow external access to the deep portions of the tonsils, these tonsils are more vulnerable to infection.
crypt is the library function which is used to compute a password hash that can be used to store user account passwords while keeping them relatively secure (a [[Passwd (file)|passwd]] file). The output of the function is not simply the hash— it is a text string which also encodes the salt (usually the first two characters are the salt itself and the rest is the hashed result), and identifies the hash algorithm used (defaulting to the "traditional" one explained below). This output string is what is meant for putting in a password record which may be stored in a plain text file.
More formally, crypt provides cryptographic key derivation functions for password validation and storage on Unix systems.
Usage examples of "crypt".
The entrance to the crypt is from the north aisle of the choir as it was in ancient days.
Before this fire, the only crypt whose existence was known of, was a small chamber under the platform of the high altar, no wider than the central aisle of the choir, and only equal to a bay and a half of that aisle in length.
The rays even penetrated into the apse, and the sepulchral crypts were brightened up by them.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
She had not been in the yard to greet him because Aymer, angry at some perceived disobedience on her part, had dragged her to the crypt and locked her in to fight the terror and darkness.
The interior of this church is generally considered one of the most beautiful interiors of Italy on account of its effective basilican plan with a crypt opening from the nave, its beautiful and rich detail, and its fine mosaics and decorations.
Hubert having blessed the place with holy water, Secorim began censing it, the sweet perfume of the incense smoke only slightly masking the charnel smell of the damp crypt, which eventually stretched nearly the length of the cathedral in a series of interlinked chambers.
And Joe had learned that among the people Haj Harun visited on his yearly rounds in the Holy City, along with the nameless cobbler near Damascus Gate whose cubbyhole Haj Harun could never find, along with the nameless muttering man who ceaselessly paced back and forth on the steps to the crypt in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, along with them there had once been a pious linguistic genius with whom Haj Harun had conversed in Aramaic, the language spoken in Palestine two and three thousand years ago.
The caravan passed through a black slum far out in the parish, crossed a bridge over a coulee, and turned down a shell road that led to a cluster of burial crypts in a cemetery by the bayou.
Fitz staggered into the crypt after the ectoplasm, looking confused and dishevelled.
The old Hebrew graves were crypts, wide, deep holes, like the habitations of the troglodytes.
The exteriors of these are of the same form and size as the crypt windows, but they are deeply splayed inside, and probably were used as hagioscopes or squints, to allow those kneeling in the choir aisles to see the priest celebrating mass at the crypt altar.
The unwholesome warmth of an ocean of decay rotted the crisp cold to a corpse-like chill, like the buried incalescence of some deep and teaming crypt.
Perhaps in a few months a slow seepage, rich in minerals, would return to these passages and gradually glue their bodies to the rocks where they sat, to seal their crypt and lapidify their bones.
He had caught a chill in the crypts, no doubt, hefting those heavy bricks, brought out by his unwise second visit to those clammy, nitred depths.