Definitions for cells

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Cells is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in cells (cells).

Definitions for cells

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 cells

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 cells

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

There were cells, in which he kept his wives, after he had married them.

The cells that hold its 49 inmates for 22 hours a day were a few feet bigger, and no one shares.

They lead to the cells of the friars, and are distinct from the entrances to the church.

The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.

The cells of our own bodies are to-day living, as it were, in an ocean.

Those with the disease have some cells that are genetically normal and some with the mutation.

And he had arrived at what he called the hypothesis of the abortion of cells.

African-Americans, wrote Mailer, “known down to the cells of [their] existence that life is war, nothing but war.”

Ned buzzed by, picked up two of the thugs, and hauled them off to the cells.