noun
Meaning 1
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
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noun
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
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A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
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Usage: historical
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A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
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Synonyms: prison cell
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noun
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
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Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
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Usage: obsolete
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A section or compartment of a larger structure.
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Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
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Usage: literary, obsolete
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A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
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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.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
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Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
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Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
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Topics: card-games, games
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A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
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A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
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Topics: communication, communications
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A region of radio reception, or the group of devices that uses it, that is a part of a larger radio network.
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Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
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Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
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Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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noun
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
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Topics: architecture
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noun
A cella.
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Topics: architecture
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An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
A cellular phone.
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Usage: Australia, India, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal
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verb
To place or enclose in a cell.
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Usage: transitive
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(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
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Broader terms: living thing, animate thing
Narrower terms: recombinant, blastomere, flagellated cell, fiber, fibre, Kupffer's cell, beta cell, somatic cell, vegetative cell, blastema, zygote, fertilized ovum, parthenote, embryonic cell, formative cell, akaryocyte, akaryote, acaryote, reproductive cell, germ cell, sex cell, gametocyte, polar body, Leydig cell, Leydig's cell, Sertoli cell, Sertoli's cell, plant cell, archespore, archesporium, daughter cell, mother cell, arthrospore
noun
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: electric cell
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Broader terms: electrical device
Narrower terms: electrolytic cell, fuel cell, solar cell, photovoltaic cell, storage cell, secondary cell, voltaic cell, galvanic cell, primary cell
noun
a room where a prisoner is kept
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Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell
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Broader terms: room
Narrower terms: bullpen, detention cell, detention centre, cooler, tank, dungeon, guardroom, hold, keep, sweatbox
noun
small room in which a monk or nun lives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cubicle
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Broader terms: room
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any small compartment
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Broader terms: compartment
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a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone
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Broader terms: radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone
noun
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cadre
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Broader terms: political unit, political entity
Narrower terms: sleeper cell, terrorist cell, radical cell
History
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.
Across languages
409 source translations are retained for this English entry.