Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CELL

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Definitions of CELL

1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit. [from 10th c.]
2. (nowhistorical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. [from 11th c.]
3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.]
4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. [from 18th c.]
5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. [from 14th c.]
6. (biology, now, chiefly, botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.]
7. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
8. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. [14th]
9. A section or compartment of a larger structure. [from 16th c.]
10. (obsolete, chieflyliterary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. [16th]
11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. [from 19th c.]
12. (biology) 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. [from 19th c.]
13. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. [from 20th c.]
14. (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. [from 20th c.]
15. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
16. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]
17. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode. [from 20th c.]
18. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
19. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
20. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
21. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
22. (architecture) A cella.
23. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
24. (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
25. (US, NZ, AU, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

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Examples of Using CELL in a Sentence

• Most algae are aquatic organisms and lack many of the distinct cell and tissue types, such as stomata, xylem and phloem that are found in land plants.
• An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body.
• The members of an autosome pair in a diploid cell have the same morphology, unlike those in allosomal (sex chromosome) pairs, which may have different structures.
• Actinophryids are unicellular and roughly spherical in shape, with many axopodia that radiate outward from the cell body.
• These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, DNA fragmentation, and mRNA decay.
• It forms the supporting structure in the cell walls of certain species of algae and is released on boiling.
• Bell Labs is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
• Every cell consists of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane; many cells contain organelles, each with a specific function.
• A biological membrane, biomembrane or cell membrane is a selectively permeable membrane that separates the interior of a cell from the external environment or creates intracellular compartments by serving as a boundary between one part of the cell and another.
• In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus.
• Eukaryotic cells usually have a single nucleus, but a few cell types, such as mammalian red blood cells, have no nuclei, and a few others including osteoclasts have many.
• A cell wall is a structural layer that surrounds some cell types, found immediately outside the cell membrane.
• Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells.
• Monitoring both blood levels of the medication and blood cell levels every two days is recommended during treatment.
• Cholesterol is biosynthesized by all animal cells and is an essential structural and signaling component of animal cell membranes.
• Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living, jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick.
• Chlorophytes are eukaryotic organisms composed of cells with a variety of coverings or walls, and usually a single green chloroplast in each cell.
• In the eukaryotic cell, the cytosol is surrounded by the cell membrane and is part of the cytoplasm, which also comprises the mitochondria, plastids, and other organelles (but not their internal fluids and structures); the cell nucleus is separate.
• This prevents the strands from becoming tangled and also plays important roles in reinforcing the DNA during cell division, preventing DNA damage, and regulating gene expression and DNA replication.
• The cell cycle, or cell-division cycle, is the sequential series of events that take place in a cell that causes it to divide into two daughter cells.

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