'CELL' definitions:
Definition of 'cell'
From: WordNet
noun
Any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
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 [syn: cell, electric cell]
noun
A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement [syn: cell, cadre]
noun
A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone]
noun
Small room in which a monk or nun lives [syn: cell, cubicle]
noun
A room where a prisoner is kept [syn: cell, jail cell, prison cell]
Definition of 'Cell'
From: GCIDE
- Cell \Cell\ (s[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Celled (s[e^]ld).] To place or inclose in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] --Warner. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cell'
From: GCIDE
- Cell \Cell\, n. [OF. celle, fr. L. cella; akin to celare to hide, and E. hell, helm, conceal. Cf. Hall.]
- 1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. [1913 Webster]
- The heroic confessor in his cell. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. "Cells or dependent priories." --Milman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any small cavity, or hollow place. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Arch.) (a) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. (b) Same as Cella. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Elec.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Biol.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. [1913 Webster]
- Note: All cells have their origin in the primary cell from which the organism was developed. In the lowest animal and vegetable forms, one single cell constitutes the complete individual, such being called unicelluter orgamisms. A typical cell is composed of a semifluid mass of protoplasm, more or less granular, generally containing in its center a nucleus which in turn frequently contains one or more nucleoli, the whole being surrounded by a thin membrane, the cell wall. In some cells, as in those of blood, in the am[oe]ba, and in embryonic cells (both vegetable and animal), there is no restricting cell wall, while in some of the unicelluliar organisms the nucleus is wholly wanting. See Illust. of Bipolar. [1913 Webster]
- Air cell. See Air cell.
- Cell development (called also cell genesis, {cell formation}, and cytogenesis), the multiplication, of cells by a process of reproduction under the following common forms; segmentation or fission, gemmation or budding, karyokinesis, and endogenous multiplication. See Segmentation, Gemmation, etc.
- Cell theory. (Biol.) See Cellular theory, under Cellular. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cell'
From: GCIDE
- Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. [1913 Webster]
- Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Cloister. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cell'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adytum,
- animal cell,
- apartment,
- ashram,
- bastille,
- bioplast,
- black hole,
- booth,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- box,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- bunch,
- cabal,
- cadre,
- camarilla,
- cavity,
- cellular tissue,
- cellule,
- chamber,
- charmed circle,
- chromatoplasm,
- circle,
- clan,
- clique,
- cloister,
- closed circle,
- coenocyte,
- compartment,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- corpuscle,
- coterie,
- crew,
- crib,
- crowd,
- crypt,
- cubicle,
- cytoplasm,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- den,
- detention camp,
- ectoplasm,
- electron-image tube,
- elite,
- elite group,
- enclosed space,
- endoplasm,
- energid,
- eucaryotic cell,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- gas phototube,
- germ cell,
- group,
- guardhouse,
- hermitage,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hiding place,
- hold,
- hole,
- hollow,
- holy of holies,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- ingroup,
- inner circle,
- internment camp,
- ivory tower,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- junta,
- junto,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lair,
- lockup,
- manger,
- maximum-security prison,
- mew,
- minimum-security prison,
- mob,
- multiplier phototube,
- oubliette,
- outfit,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- pew,
- photoconductor cell,
- photomultiplier tube,
- phototube,
- photovoltaic cell,
- Photronic cell,
- plant cell,
- plasmodium,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- privacy,
- procaryotic cell,
- protoplasm,
- recess,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- reticulum,
- retreat,
- ring,
- room,
- sanctum,
- sanctum sanctorum,
- secret place,
- set,
- soft phototube,
- somatic cell,
- sponging house,
- stall,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- syncytium,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- trophoplasm,
- vacuum phototube,
- vault,
- we-group
Acronyms for 'CELL'
From: V.E.R.A.
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Words containing 'CELL'
- Celled,
- T cell,
- Air cell,
- Bronchial cells,
- Bunsen cell,
- Cancer cells,
- Cell cleavage,
- Cell development,
- Cell division,
- Cell theory,
- Cribriform cells,
- Daughter cell,
- Ganglion cell,
- Germ cell,
- Giant cell,
- Growing cell,
- Guard cells,
- Hair cells,
- Lasso cell,
- Liber cells,
- Libriform cells,
- Mother cell,
- Nerve cell,
- Nettling cell,
- Palisade cells,
- Parent cell,
- Pigment cell,
- Polar cell,
- Purkinje's cells,
- Sieve cells,
- Sperm cell,
- Stinging cell,
- Thread cell,
- Wandering cell,
- Water cell,
- White cell,
- Wood cell,
- adipose cell,
- auxiliary cell,
- b cell,
- beta cell,
- blood cell,
- bone cell,
- brain cell,
- cadmium cell,
- cancer cell,
- cd4 cell,
- cd4 t cell,
- cd8 cell,
- cd8 t cell,
- cell death,
- cell doctrine,
- cell formation,
- cell genesis,
- cell membrane,
- cell nucleus,
- cell organ,
- cell organelle,
- cell phone,
- cell wall,
- clark cell,
- collar cell,
- columnar cell,
- cone cell,
- cuboidal cell,
- cytotoxic t cell,
- detention cell,
- dry cell,
- egg cell,
- electric cell,
- electrolytic cell,
- embryonic cell,
- epidermal cell,
- epithelial cell,
- fat cell,
- flagellated cell,
- flame cell,
- formative cell,
- fuel cell,
- galvanic cell,
- glial cell,
- goblet cell,
- golgi cell,
- golgi's cell,
- gustatory cell,
- hair cell,
- helper cell,
- helper t cell,
- holding cell,
- intelligence cell,
- jail cell,
- kerr cell,
- killer cell,
- killer t cell,
- kupffer's cell,
- leclanche cell,
- leydig cell,
- leydig's cell,
- lymph cell,
- mast cell,
- mercury cell,
- muscle cell,
- neoplastic cell,
- neuroglial cell,
- operational cell,
- packed cells,
- photoconductive cell,
- photoelectric cell,
- photovoltaic cell,
- plant cell,
- plasma cell,
- prickle cell,
- primary cell,
- prison cell,
- purkinje cell,
- radical cell,
- reproductive cell,
- rod cell,
- scavenger cell,
- schwann cell,
- secondary cell,
- selenium cell,
- sertoli cell,
- sertoli's cell,
- sex cell,
- sickle cell,
- skin cell,
- sleeper cell,
- solar cell,
- somatic cell,
- squamous cell,
- standard cell,
- stem cell,
- storage cell,
- target cell,
- taste cell,
- terrorist cell,
- unit cell,
- vegetative cell,
- visual cell,
- voltaic cell,
- weston cell,
- wet cell,
- White blood cell,
- cell-free,
- cell-like,
- clark standard cell,
- columnar epithelial cell,
- cuboidal epithelial cell,
- hematopoeitic stem cell,
- oat cell carcinoma,
- one-celled,
- packed cell volume,
- phase of cell division,
- programmed cell death,
- red blood cell,
- sickle cell anemia,
- single-celled,
- small cell carcinoma,
- smooth muscle cell,
- spore mother cell,
- squamous cell carcinoma,
- striated muscle cell,
- Photo-electric cell,
- White cell-blood,
- bone-forming cell,
- crescent-cell anaemia,
- crescent-cell anemia,
- interstitial plasma cell pneumonia,
- sickle-cell anaemia,
- sickle-cell anemia,
- sickle-cell disease,
- somatic cell nuclear transfer,
- somatic cell nuclear transplantation,
- stem-cell research,
- caspase-mediated cell death,
- cell-mediated immune response,
- embryonic stem-cell research,
- interstitial cell-stimulating hormone,
- human t-cell leukemia virus-1