cell
Definitions
- A cellular phone.
- cell (the basic unit of a living organism)
- Room, usually modest, allocated to religious in a convent.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- cell (a small group of people forming part of a larger organization)
- To store in a honeycomb.
- Fraction of a set of formations generally repetitive.
- A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- To live in or share a prison cell.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- see cellular phone.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- célula, unidad estructural de todo organismo viviente.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.
- Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.
- The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- Biology The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.
- Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
- Architecture See web.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.
- Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
- Electricity a. A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- 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.
- The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- 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.
- A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- 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.
Equivalents
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Afrikaanssel
Azərbaycan dilihüceyrə
Беларускаяклетка
Българскиклетка
বাংলাকোষ
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Cymraegcell
Danskcelle
Esperantoĉelo
Eestirakk
Gaeilgecill
Hrvatskićelacelaćelijačelocelocepelementkamerapilapilešelstanicaбатеријазатворкамераклеткастаницаћелија
Íslenskafruma
ქართულიუჯრედი
Қазақ тіліжасуша
ភាសាខ្មែរកោសិកា
മലയാളംകോശം
Монголэс
मराठीपेशी
Bahasa Melayusel
Maltixehda
မြန်မာကလာပ်စည်း
Slovenščinacelica
Shqipqelizë
Српскиćelacelaćelijaceločelocepelementkamerapilapilešelstanicaбатеријазатворкамераклеткастаницаћелија
Kiswahiliseli
తెలుగుకణము
Tagalogselula
ئۇيغۇرچەھۈجەيرە
اردوخَلِیَہ
O'zbekchahujayra
Examples
“So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point⟳ fit speaches gan to frame […].”
“For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form⟳: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.”
“Gregor Mendel must have⟳ spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”
“A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.”
“The combatants spent the night in separate⟳ cells.”
“Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].”
“How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force⟳ it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.”
“[W]e shall feel⟳ still more contempt for the order⟳ of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.”
“From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live⟳, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force⟳ each trembling nerve and fibre.”
“Thou seest but the order⟳ and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].”
“Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like⟳ hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].”
“This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.”
“An American company has applied to experiment⟳ in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.”
“In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form⟳ tissues and tissues come⟳ together to form⟳ organs.”
“There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.”
“The upper right cell always starts with the color green.”
“Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look⟳ at an arbitrary number⟳ of its neighbors.”
“It is used for land-use change⟳ simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become⟳ urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain⟳ agriculture.)”
“I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)”
“Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.”
“Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work⟳ in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.”
“Virtual Channel number⟳ 5 received 170 cells.”
“I get⟳ good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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