Let us devote this material to a word that is not fully understood by many, which has several similar, and at the root of different meanings. We begin with a number of its definitions.
What is casemate?
The casemate room, casemate is:
- Sturdy vaulted structures of stone inside a number of fortifications (fortresses, pillboxes, forts, etc.), protected from bullets, fire, explosions.
- Capital large dugouts under the shaft.
- Premises in the fortress, where criminals are held.
- Separately isolated, detached camera or room in prison.
- Stone vaulted rooms in which prisoners serve time.
- A number of rooms in defensive structures, built specifically to protect both fighters, weapons, ammunition, food, etc.
- Armored camera on a military ship, where shipborne artillery guns are installed. It is also used for sheltering combat personnel from fire.
- In tsarist Russia and many bourgeois countries, until the beginning of the twentieth century, special cells were called in the fortresses, where political prisoners were held.
- Prison in the most general concept.
- The outdated meaning is the camera, where especially dangerous criminals serve their punishment.
Origin and synonyms
To understand what casemate is, to some extent helps and familiarity with the origin of this word. It happened from the French casemate, which, in turn, has Italian roots: cas, casa - "hut", "house"; mautt, matto - "dark," "crazy," "matte." Other dictionaries say that the primary source can be the Italian word casamatta, which literally can be translated as a "madhouse"; in another meaning - "blind building", "invisible fortification."
To say what a casemate is, in other words, synonyms of this term will help:
- jail;
- camera;
- dungeon;
- premises;
- prison;
- bullpen;
- catatal;
- the jail;
- caponier;
- punishment cell;
- dugout;
- blockhouse.
Casemates and WoW
Playing in the popular online game World ofWarcraft is familiar with such an underground location, as "Casemates of the Guardians", the passage of which requires the presence of 110 level. The procedure for launching the "Guardian casemates" is described in many video games, as it causes a lot of questions for gamers. Upon its passage the player receives 75 so-called reputations with "Kirin-Tor" and 100 - with "Guardians".
What is a casemate in a few words?The main values of this concept are three: the building as part of a fortification, protected from fire and bombardment; Armored chamber for placing artillery and protecting soldiers on ships; a type of specially fortified prison room for different categories of criminals.
