cell.
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
Meaning & usage
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
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.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
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.
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.
A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
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.
In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
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.
A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
A region of radio reception, or the group of devices that uses it, that is a part of a larger radio network.
I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
A cella.
An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
Where this word comes from
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.
To place or enclose in a cell.
Where this word comes from
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.
A cellular phone.
Where this word comes from
Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.
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