Definitions for cell

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Cell is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in cell (cell).

Definitions for cell

noun

1. a small room, as in a convent or prison.
2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole.
3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization:
4. Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
5. Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins.
6. Botany. locule.
7. Electricity. Also called battery, electric cell, electrochemical cell, galvanic cell, voltaic cell. a device that generates electrical energy from chemical energy, usually consisting of two different conducting substances placed in an electrolyte. Compare dry cell. solar cell.
8. Also called electrolytic cell. Physical Chemistry. a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes.
9. Aeronautics. the gas container of a balloon.
10. Ecclesiastical. a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house.
11. Telecommunications. one of the distinct geographical areas covered by a radio transmitter in a cellular phone system. cell phone.
12. cel.
13. a transparent celluloid sheet on which a character, scene, etc., is drawn or painted and which constitutes one frame in the filming of an animated cartoon: may be overlapped for change of background or foreground.
14. a wireless telephone using a system of low-powered radio transmitters, with each transmitter covering a distinct geographical area (cell) and computer equipment to switch a call from one area to another, thus enabling broad-scale portable phone service.
15. such a wireless telephone that has other functions, as text messaging or Internet access.
16. mobile phone.

verb (used without object)

1. to live in a cell:

Origin of cell

before 1150; 1665-75 for def 4; Middle English celle Old French celle Medieval Latin cella monastic cell, Latin: room (see cella); Old English cell Medieval Latin, a

Examples for cell

It seemed a lifetime that he had lived in the noisome atmosphere of a felon's cell.

In fact, four of 20 cells at Cobalt were found to have bars across the cell to allow this.

Joel Osteen wants to talk about muting your cell phone at the dinner table.

In the solitude of his cell, the angel of patience had been with him.

Once, when occupying a cell in near a phone, I saw the suicide prevention protocols in action.

The arched door of the lady's room, or cell, was not quite shut.

At that point, the Library of Congress can once again decide to prohibit consumers from unlocking their cell phones.

Earlier this year, security at major airports was tightened because of a tip that al-Asiri had been working on a cell phone bomb.

While in Newgate he hanged himself to the cell window with his own stockings.

Dick withdrew to his own cell, as he called it, and he passed bitter hours there.