cell

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
2. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
6. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
7. 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.
9. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
10. (obsolete) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
12. 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.
13. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
14. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
15. 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.
17. A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
18. A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
19. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
20. The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
21. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
22. A cella.
23. An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Verb

To place or enclose in a cell.

Sinônimos

jail

prison

prison cell

chamber

battery

🔋

unit

mobile phone

dungeon

cellular phone

element

cellule

cubicle

cell phone

electric cell

ward

pile

corpuscle

cellphone

lock up

cellula

penitentiary

room

jail cell

section

honeycomb

cellular telephone

cadre

mobile telephone

gaol

celly

lock-up

cellular

location

battery cell

hermitage

hold

memory cell

memory location

mobile

monastery

nick

nucleus

pigeon-hole

piston ring

primitive

principle

rudiment

slammer

slot

small room

spore

sprite

square

storage allocation

storage cell

storage location

vault

ventricle

C

C

chokey

corpuscule

gray hair

groundnuts

prison house

small hole

storage element

unit element

cuvette

hoosgow

precell

radio cell

detention cell

punishment cell

electrochemical cell

sweat box

cell room

on unit on

store location

store cell

galvanic element cell

lens cell

mobile phone

monastic cell

cellphone

cellular phone

part

mobile

airframe

apartment

bank

🏦

bastille

biological

black hole

bogey

bogy

booth

bugbear

carton

cavern

choky

clink

closet

clove

compartment

component

cooler

core

data

detail

electric battery

galvanic cell

genie

🧞

germ

ghost

👻

goal

granary

hole

🕳️

hovel

hut

🛖

isolation ward

kernel

loculus

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sɛl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.