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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