Cell
[sel] or [sɛl]
Definition
(noun.) (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.
(noun.) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction.
(noun.) a room where a prisoner is kept.
(noun.) small room in which a monk or nun lives.
(noun.) any small compartment; 'the cells of a honeycomb'.
(noun.) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
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Definition
(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(n.) Same as Cella.
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Small room.[2]. Enclosed space, small cavity.
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Definition
n. a small room in a prison monastery &c.: a cave: a small shut cavity: the grave: a unit-mass of living matter whether rounded off by itself as in the simplest plants or animals and in the youngest stage of all organisms or associated with other cells to form a higher unity.—adjs. Celled having cells cellular; Cellif′erous having or producing cells; Cell′ular Cell′ulated consisting of or containing cells.—n. Cell′ule a little cell.—adj. Cellulif′erous having or producing little cells.—n. Cell′uloid a hard elastic compound used for ivory obtained by hydraulic pressure from pyroxylin mixed with camphor &c.—adj. Cell′ulose containing cells.—n. the substance of which the permanent cell-membranes of plants are composed.
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Examples
- I fell in behind them and soon we were at the cell in which the great Thark had been chained. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This was an invitation for Oliver to enter through a door which he unlocked as he spoke, and which led into a stone cell. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Bring writing materials when you come next to my cell, and within a few hours we shall see you garbed in a style befitting your birth and carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- One is like a man in a prison cell watching the rain out of the window; it is all the same to him. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I mount to the cell, with a fellow-citizen who is one of the Jury, directed by a gaoler. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Plante coiled up his sheets into a very handy cell like a little roll of carpet or pastry; but the trouble was that the battery took a long time to form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So saying, the trooper puts his lips to the old girl's tanned forehead, and the door shuts upon him in his cell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When the cell consists of copper, zinc, and dilute sulphuric acid, the electromotive force has a definite value which is always the same no matter what the size or shape of the cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The mole should be surrounded by a little cell or ring of wax, so that the acid can be applied direct without fear of disorganizing the adjacent skin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He was overjoyed at seeing me, and to know the meaning of the fight, faint echoes of which had reached his prison cell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The deflection of the tubes in the centre amounted to only three-quarters of an inch in each cell; it being rather less when the trains were at full speed than when stationary. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In the queen's cell were two National Guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I went there and found over eighty cells of the well-known Grove nitric-acid battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Practically all small railroad stations and local telegraph offices use these cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In practically all cells, the chemical method is used in preference to the mechanical one. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The standard Edison meter practice was to remove the cells once a month to the meter-room of the central-station company for examination, another set being substituted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the tusk grows in length on the living elephant it also expands; but the cells grow larger and less compact as the tusk expands in circumference. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When all was ready, he filled the cells with whiskey, connected the battery, locked the door of the small room in which they were placed, and gave positive orders that no one should enter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In fact, in the leading telegraph offices the storage battery has practically superseded the old voltaic cells. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The black grumbled something that I could not understand, and then I heard him unlocking the door into one of the other cells on the further side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The moist paste takes the place of the liquids used in other cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was the Thomson reflecting mirror galvanometer and electrometer, while nearby were the standard cells by which the galvanometers were adjusted and standardized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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