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- 1 A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
"So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […]."
- 2 A cellular phone. Australia, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal
- 3 (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals wordnet
- 4 A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. historical
- 5 a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction wordnet
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- 6 A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
"Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell."
- 7 a room where a prisoner is kept wordnet
- 8 A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
"The combatants spent the night in separate cells."
- 9 small room in which a monk or nun lives wordnet
- 10 Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- 11 any small compartment wordnet
- 12 Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
"Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…]."
- 13 a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver wordnet
- 14 The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- 15 a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement wordnet
- 16 Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. obsolete
"How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept."
- 17 A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- 18 Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. literary, obsolete
"Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…]."
- 19 A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
"This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells."
- 20 The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
"An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs."
- 21 A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
"There is a powerful storm cell headed our way."
- 22 The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
"The upper right cell always starts with the color green."
- 23 In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- 24 A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
"Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization."
- 25 A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
"Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells."
- 26 A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
"I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower."
- 27 A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- 28 The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- 29 The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- 30 A cella.
- 31 An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- 1 To place or enclose in a cell. transitive
"Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found"
Etymology
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.
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