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Crypt : (noun)
1: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially
beneath a church)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Crypt : \Crypt\ (kr[i^]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr.
kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.]
1. 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.
2. (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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Crypt :
Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Crypt : Crypt: In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression , or a pit -- in an otherwise fairly flat surface.
Cryptic in the case of the tonsils refer to the tonsillar crypts which are little pitlike depressions in the tonsils.
The words crypt and cryptic come from the Greek "kryptos" meaning hidden or concealed. Thus, cryptic tonsillitis may be hidden, concealed because it is down in the pits (of the tonsil).
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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