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Cell most often refers to:

Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life

Cell may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Cell (comics), a Marvel comic book character
Cell (Dragon Ball), a character in the manga series Dragon Ball

Literature

Cell (novel), a 2006 horror novel by Stephen King
«Cells», poem, about a hungover soldier in gaol, by Rudyard Kipling
The Cell (play), an Australian play by Robert Wales

Music

Cell (music), a small rhythmic and melodic design that can be isolated, or can make up one part of a thematic context
Cell (American band)
Cell (Japanese band)
Cell (album), a 2004 album by Plastic Tree
Cells, a 1998 album by Cex
Cells, a 2012 album by Fake Blood
«Cells», an art song composed by G. F. Cobb and named after the poem by Kipling
«Cells», a song by Bloem de Ligny
«Cells», a song by The Servant
The Cells, an American rock band
«The Cell» (song), a 2006 song by Jandek

Other arts, entertainment, and media

The Cell (film), a 2000 psychological thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez
Cell (film), a 2016 film based on the Stephen King novel
Animation cel, a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation
«The Cell» (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the TV series The Vampire Diaries
«The Cell» (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
The Cell (BBC Four), Adam Rutherford’s 3-part documentary series that aired on BBC Four
The Cell, the original title of the TV series Sleeper Cell

Groups of people

Cell, a group of people in a cell group, a form of Christian church organization
Cell, a unit of a clandestine cell system, a penetration-resistant form of a secret or outlawed organization
Cellular organizational structure, such as in business management

Rooms

Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery with only a few monks or nuns
Prison cell, a room used to hold people in prisons

Science, mathematics, and technology

Computing and telecommunications

Cell (EDA), a term used in an electronic circuit design schematics
Cell (microprocessor), a microprocessor architecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM
Cell, a unit in a database table or spreadsheet, formed by the intersection of a row and a column
Cell, in wireless local area networking standards (including Wi-Fi), a wireless connection within a limited area, referred to as a cell or Basic Service Set
Cell, a fixed-length data frame used in the Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol
Cellphone, a phone connected to a cellular network
- Cell (network), area of radio coverage in a cellular network
Memory cell (computing), the basic unit of (volatile or non-volatile) computer memory

Mathematics

Cell (geometry), a three-dimensional element, part of a higher-dimensional object
Cell, an element of an abstract cell complex
Cell, a basic unit of a cellular automaton
Cell, an element of a CW complex
Cell, a k-face of a simplicial complex

Other uses in science and technology

Cell (journal), a scientific journal
Electrochemical cell, a device used to convert chemical energy to electrical energy
- Fuel cell, a device used to convert chemical energy from a fuel like hydrogen to electricity
- Galvanic cell or voltaic cell, a particular kind of electrochemical cell
Photodetector, or photo cell, a sensor which detects light
Solar cell, a component of photovoltaic systems used to convert the energy of light into electricity
Storm cell, the smallest unit of a storm-producing system

*Another term for a prisoner’s room.
*A term to refer to a militious group (such as a terrorist group).
*A quick term for a cellphone, as displayed, as an example, in the first episode of the current TMNT series; the «shellcell».
*The name of a powerful villian in Dragonball Z, able to create duplicates of his genetic code, all of which are capable of learning, and thus creating an almost immortal, self-aware foe. The only way to stop him is to fry his ENTIRE body. Urban Dictionary

N. an abbreviation for ‘cellular phone.’
v. the act of calling someone else’s cellular phone. Urban Dictionary

The basic structual and functional unit of all organisms. Urban Dictionary

Mobile Telicommunication Device Urban Dictionary

A basic unit of organs. Urban Dictionary

Another word for a persons bedroom Urban Dictionary

Cell is a fictional villian and fighter in the popular anime series Dragonball Z. His only purpose is to absorb and kill other fighters, thereby gaining their strength. As an android built from the cells of the greatest fighters in the universe, he is able to use even their most powerful fighting techniques, though it is unknown if he can use the Wolf-Fang Fist. Urban Dictionary

One of the major villains from the dragonball universe. He was created by Dr. Gero (later dubbed android 20), and was created to incorporate all the cells of the best fighters in the universe. By weaving all their cells together from each fighter, he is able to inherit their abilities and fighting techniques. Like Frieza, he has the ability to survive anywhere, like Piccolo, he can regenerate his anatomy if his core is not damaged (in his case, one cell is enough to regenerate from), Vegeta’s fighting genius, and attitude, Goku’s natural aptitude for fighting, and the young but powerful Gohan.
Cell cannot reach his full potential until he absorbs Android 17 and Android 18. Once he does, they are permanently integrated into his design, giving him great power. Once he absorbs them, even if he loses android 17 or 18’s body, he is still able to retain his perfect power (prior to exploding) after blowing himself up, leaving one cell he can regenerate from, and giving him a zenkai increase, making his power substantially greater, enough to kill Future Trunks with one blow, and power that rivals that of Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. Urban Dictionary

Meaning used when people want you to call their cell Urban Dictionary

1) A place where prisoners have a bed and toilet and are locked up next to other cells
2) cell is short for cellular, cell as in cell phone means personal, your personal phone Urban Dictionary

Источник

Other forms: cells

Cell has several different meanings, but all of them are similar. Whether it’s in a prison or in your blood (or even in the political landscape), a cell is a small room, space, or unit.

Blood is composed of countless individual cells, as are virtually all of the organs of the body: skin, liver, lungs, brain, etc. The cell is the basic unit of all biology. A cell in a prison is the room in which a prisoner lives. But did you know that a cell can also be a small group of people devoted to a larger political cause? The government’s security forces are constantly on the lookout for terrorist «sleeper cells» and would love to get the members of a sleeper cell into a prison cell.

Definitions of cell

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

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recombinant

a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred

blastomere

any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg

flagellated cell

any cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum

fiber, fibre

any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)

Kupffer’s cell

specialized cells in the liver that destroy bacteria, foreign proteins, and worn-out blood cells

beta cell

a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas

somatic cell, vegetative cell

any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes

blastema

a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops

fertilized ovum, zygote

(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

parthenote

a cell resulting from parthenogenesis

embryonic cell, formative cell

a cell of an embryo

acaryote, akaryocyte, akaryote

a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte)

germ cell, reproductive cell, sex cell

a spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation

gametocyte

an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis

polar body

a small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded

Leydig cell, Leydig’s cell

a cell in the testes that secretes the hormone testosterone

Sertoli cell, Sertoli’s cell

elongated cells found in the seminiferous tubules of the testis; apparently they nourish the spermatids

plant cell

a cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant

archespore, archesporium

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

daughter cell

a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell

mother cell

cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops

arthrospore

one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi

arthrospore

a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria

choanocyte, collar cell

any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body

skin cell

any of the cells making up the skin

epithelial cell

one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium

neoplastic cell

a cell that is part of tumor

heterozygote

(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring

homozygote

(genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

bone cell

a cell that is part of a bone

blastocyte

an undifferentiated embryonic cell

ameloblast

a cell from which tooth enamel develops

bone-forming cell, osteoblast

a cell from which bone develops

erythroblast

a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop

fibroblast

a cell from which connective tissue develops

neuroblast

a cell from which a nerve cell develops

blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle

either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets

phagocyte, scavenger cell

a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms

visual cell

one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light

adipose cell, fat cell

cells composed of fat

gamete

a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

oocyte

a female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions

spermatocyte

a male gametocyte that develops into four spermatids

muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre

an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

nerve fiber, nerve fibre

a threadlike extension of a nerve cell

Schwann cell

any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath

nerve cell, neuron

a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses

glial cell, neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell

a cell of the neuroglia

hybridoma

a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody

labrocyte, mast cell, mastocyte

a large connective tissue cell that contains histamine and heparin and serotonin which are released in allergic reactions or in response to injury or inflammation

stem cell

an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)

target cell

any cell that has a specific receptor for an antigen or antibody or hormone or drug, or is the focus of contact by a virus or phagocyte or nerve fiber etc.

spore mother cell

cell from which a spore develops

type of:

animate thing, living thing

a living (or once living) entity
noun

small room in which a monk or nun lives
noun

a room where a prisoner is kept
noun

any small compartment

“the
cells of a honeycomb”
noun

a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
noun

a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
noun

a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

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: a small religious house dependent on a monastery or convent

: a one-room dwelling occupied by a solitary person (such as a hermit)

: a single room (as in a convent or prison) usually for one person

: a small compartment, cavity, or bounded space: such as

: a membranous area bounded by veins in the wing of an insect

: a small usually microscopic mass of protoplasm bounded externally by a semipermeable membrane, usually including one or more nuclei and various other organelles with their products, capable alone or interacting with other cells of performing all the fundamental functions of life, and forming the smallest structural unit of living matter capable of functioning independently

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: a receptacle containing electrodes and an electrolyte either for generating electricity by chemical action or for use in electrolysis

: a single unit in a device for converting radiant energy into electrical energy or for varying the intensity of an electrical current in accordance with radiation (see radiation sense 1)

: a unit in a statistical array (see array entry 2 sense 5) (such as a spreadsheet) formed by the intersection of a column and a row

: a basic and usually small unit of an organization or movement

: a portion of the atmosphere that behaves as a unit

Illustration of cell

A plant
B animal; 1 cell wall
2 middle lamella
3 plasma membrane
4 mitochondrion
5 vacuole
6 Golgi apparatus
7 cytoplasm
8 nuclear membrane
9 nucleolus
10 nucleus
11 chromatin
12 endoplasmic reticulum with associated ribosomes
13 chloroplast
14 centriole
15 lysosome

Synonyms

Example Sentences

The suspect was in the police station’s holding cell overnight.

his mission was to locate and infiltrate the terrorist cell that was believed to be hiding in the city

Recent Examples on the Web

On top of that, a percentage of its battery minerals must be sourced from a specific list of free-trade partners (not including China), and lastly, its battery cells must be assembled in North America.

—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023

The new prisons will have more individual cells.

—Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023

In the park where the rally was held, there was a strange, life-sized jail cell door, its bars backed with mirrors, reflecting back the faces of the people surrounding, with the courthouse as backdrop.

—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023

But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

—Fabiola Sánchez And Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023

But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

—Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023

But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

—Fabiola Sánchez And Morgan Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023

But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

—Fabiola Sánchez And Morgan Lee, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Mar. 2023

But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.

—Fabiola Sánchez, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English, religious house and Anglo-French celle hermit’s cell, from Latin cella small room; akin to Latin celare to conceal — more at hell

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of cell was
before the 12th century

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Источник

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /sɛl/
Rhymes: -ɛl
Homophones: cel, sell

Etymology 1[edit]

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. Doublet of cella; ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).

Noun[edit]

cell (plural cells)

A single-room dwelling for a hermit. [from 10th c.]
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, IV:
  
  For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.
(now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. [from 11th c.]
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.]
- 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315:
  
  A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.
Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. [from 18th c.]

Synonym: prison cell

The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. [from 14th c.]
(biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.]
- 1858, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, fifth edition, p. 282:
  
  Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom […].
(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. [14th–19th c.]
- 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution:
  
  [W]e shall feel still more contempt for the order of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
  
  From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man’s appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
A section or compartment of a larger structure. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. [16th–19th c.]
- 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
  
  Not long shall honour’d Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell […].
A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. [from 19th c.]

This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
(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.]
- 1999, Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian, 15 Feb 1999:
  
  An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson’s disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
- 2011, Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 3:
  
  In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. [from 20th c.]

There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. [from 20th c.]

The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]

Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Special Tasks Group Codex entry:
  
  Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode. [from 20th c.]

Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(architecture) A cella.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Usage notes[edit]

In the sense of an electrical device, «cell» is the technically correct name for a single unit of battery-type power storage, whereas a battery is a device comprising multiple of them, though it is often used for simple cells.

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cell.

Synonyms[edit]

See also Thesaurus:cell

Derived terms[edit]

120-cell
16-cell
24-cell
5-cell
57-cell
600-cell
8-cell
absorption cell
air cell
alpha cell
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
APUD cell
B cell
B-cell
band cell
basal cell
basal cell carcinoma
basket cell
battery cell
beta cell
Betz cell
biological fuel cell
bipolar cell
bite cell
black queen cell virus
blast cell
blister cell
blood cell
blood-cell
brain cell
Bunsen cell
burr cell
button cell
cancer cell
caudodorsal cell hormone
cell adhesion molecule
cell block
cell body
cell count
cell cycle
cell death
cell division
cell group
cell house
cell line
cell membrane
cell nucleus
cell phone lot
cell plate
cell sap
cell theory
cell therapy
cell type
cell wall
cell yell
cell-adhesion molecule
cell-mediated immune response
cell-mediated immunity
cell-phone
cell-wall
cellblock
cellbound
cellmate
character cell
chemical cell
chief cell
chloragogen cell
CHO cell
Clara cell
club cell
coin cell
companion cell
cone cell
cons cell
convection cell
counting cell hemocytometer
crowfoot cell
cytolytic T cell
cytotoxic T cell
Daniell cell
daughter cell
delta cell
dendritic cell
detention cell
diamond anvil cell
diaphragm cell
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
dry cell
dry cell battery
egg cell
electrochemical cell
enzymatic fuel cell
fat cell
Ferrata cell
flame cell
flow cell
foam cell
follicular dendritic cell
free cell formation
fuel cell
fuel cell vehicle
germ cell
glial cell
goblet cell
grand 600-cell
grandmother cell
granular cell tumor
granule cell
grape cell
gravity cell
grid cell
Grove cell
guard cell
Hadley cell
hair cell
hairy cell
half cell
half-cell
Hargreaves-Bird cell
helper T cell
hematopoietic cell
holding cell
Hooker cell
host cell
hot cell
inner cell mass
intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
IT cell
jail cell
Jurkat cell
k-cell
Kenyon cell
killer T cell
Kupffer cell
Langerhans cell
lasso cell
Leclanché cell
Leydig cell
light green cell hormone
load cell
local cell
macroglial cell
mast cell
mastoid cell
megaspore mother cell
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
memory B cell
memory cell
memory T cell
Merkel cell
Merkel-Ranvier cell
Mexican hat cell
microbial fuel cell
midget cell
mitral cell
morula cell
Mott cell
myeloid cell
natural killer cell
nerve cell
nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome
padded cell
palisade cell
Paneth cell
parasol cell
parietal cell
pavement cell
photoconductive cell
photoelectric cell
photoemissive cell
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
photovoltaic cell
place cell
plasma cell
PMN cell
prickle cell
primary cell wall
prison cell
progenitor cell
programmed cell death
Purkinje cell
pyramidal cell
radial glial cell
red blood cell
red blood cell cast
red cell
Reed-Sternberg cell
renal cell carcinoma
Renshaw cell
rod cell
satellite cell
Schwann cell
secondary cell wall
selenium cell
Sertoli cell
sex cell
sickle cell
sickle cell anaemia
sickle-cell anaemia
sickle-cell anemia
sickle-cell disease
sieve cell
skin cell
sleeper cell
smudge cell
solar cell
somatic cell
sperm cell
spindle cell
spur cell
stab cell
stellate cell
stem cell
stem-cell
storage cell
supercell
supergranulation cell
T cell
T helper cell
T-cell
target cell
terror cell
tracheid cell
trophic cell
unit cell
vegetative cell
Virchow’s cell
voltaic cell
Vorce cell
Voronoi cell
Walthard cell rest
water cell
wet cell
white blood cell
white cell
white-cell

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cellar
cellular
cellule

Translations[edit]

component of an electrical battery

Arabic: خَلِيَّة‎ f (ḵaliyya)
Bulgarian: кле́тка (bg) f (klétka)
Catalan: pila (ca) f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 電池／电池 (din⁶ ci⁴), 電芯／电芯 (din⁶ sam¹)

Mandarin: 電池／电池 (zh) (diànchí)

Min Nan: 電池／电池 (zh-min-nan) (tiān-tî)
Cornish: kell f
Czech: článek (cs) m
Dutch: batterij (nl) f
Finnish: kenno (fi), paristo (fi)
French: pile (fr) f
German: Zelle (de) f, Batteriezelle f
Greek: στοιχείο (el) n (stoicheío)
Hungarian: akkumulátorcella
Ido: pilio (io)
Indonesian: sel (id)
Japanese: セル (seru), 電池 (ja) (でんち, denchi)
Korean: 셀 (sel), 전지(電池) (ko) (jeonji)
Latvian: elements m
Lithuanian: elementas (lt) m
Macedonian: батерија f (baterija)
Maltese: ċellola f
Maori: pūhiko
Polish: ogniwo (pl) n
Portuguese: célula (pt) f
Russian: батаре́йка (ru) f (bataréjka)
Slovak: článok
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c, element (sv) n
Welsh: cell (cy) f

room in a prison for containing inmates

Afrikaans: sel (af)
Albanian: birucë (sq) f, qeli (sq) f
Arabic: زِنْزَانَة‎ f (zinzāna)
Belarusian: ка́мера f (kámjera)
Bulgarian: кили́я f (kilíja)
Burmese: အချုပ်ခန်း (my) (a.hkyuphkan:)
Catalan: calabós m, cel·la (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 牢房 (zh) (láofáng), 獨房／独房 (zh) (dúfáng)
Cornish: kell f
Czech: cela (cs) f
Danish: celle (da) c
Dutch: cel (nl) f
Faroese: fangarúm n, klivi m
Finnish: selli (fi), tyrmä (fi)
French: cellule (fr) f
Galician: cela (gl) f
Georgian: საკანი (saḳani)
German: Zelle (de) f, Haftraum m
Greek: κελί (el) n (kelí)
Hebrew: תָּא‎ (he) m (ta)
Hungarian: cella (hu), zárka (hu), börtöncella (hu)
Icelandic: klefi (is) m, fangaklefi (is) m
Indonesian: sel (id)
Italian: cella (it) f
Japanese: 独房 (どくぼう, dokubō)
Khmer: កោសិកា (km) (kaosekaa)
Korean: 독방(獨房) (ko) (dokbang)
Lao: ກ້ອງຂັງ (kǭng khang)
Latvian: kamera f
Lithuanian: kamera f
Macedonian: ќелија f (ḱelija)
Malayalam: ജയിലറ (jayilaṟa)
Maltese: ċella f
Manx: killeen m
Norman: cachot m
Norwegian:

Bokmål: celle (no) m or f
Persian: حجره‎ (fa) (hojre)
Polish: cela (pl) f
Portuguese: cela (pt) f
Romanian: celulă (ro) f
Russian: ка́мера (ru) f (kámera), кле́тка (ru) f (klétka)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ћѐлија f

Roman: ćèlija f
Slovak: cela (sk)
Spanish: celda (es) f, bartolina f (Honduras), estancia (es) f, calabozo m
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c
Thai: กรง (th) (grong)
Turkish: hücre (tr)
Ukrainian: ка́мера (uk) f (kámera)
Volapük: leziöb (vo)
Walloon: gayole (wa) f
Welsh: cell (cy) f

room in a monastery for sleeping one person

Arabic: صَوْمَعَة‎ f (ṣawmaʕa), كِرْح‎ m (kirḥ)
Armenian: խուց (hy) (xucʿ)
Belarusian: ке́лля f (kjéllja)
Bulgarian: кили́я f (kilíja)
Catalan: cel·la (ca) m
Cornish: kell f
Czech: cela (cs) f
Dutch: cel (nl) f
Finnish: kammio (fi)
French: cellule (fr) f
Galician: cela (gl) f
German: Zelle (de) f, Mönchszelle f
Greek: κελί (el) n (kelí)
Hungarian: cella (hu)
Indonesian: sel (id)
Italian: cella (it) f
Japanese: 個室 (ja) (こしつ, koshitsu)
Latvian: celle f
Lithuanian: celė f
Macedonian: ќелија f (ḱelija)
Maltese: ċella f
Manx: keeill f, killeen m
Polish: cela (pl) f
Portuguese: cela (pt) f
Romanian: chilie (ro) f
Russian: ке́лья (ru) f (kélʹja)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ћѐлија f

Roman: ćèlija f
Slovak: cela (sk)
Spanish: célula (es) f
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c
Thai: กุฎี (th) (gù-dii)
Ukrainian: ке́лія f (kélija)
Welsh: cell (cy) f

small group of people forming part of a larger organization

Arabic: خَلِيَّة‎ f (ḵaliyya)
Armenian: բջիջ (hy) (bǰiǰ)
Bulgarian: кле́тка (bg) f (klétka)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 支部 (zh) (zhībù), 部 (zh) (bù)
Czech: buňka (cs) f
Dutch: cel (nl) f
Finnish: solu (fi)
French: cellule (fr) f
Galician: célula (gl) f
German: Zelle (de) f
Greek: πυρήνας (el) m (pyrínas)
Hebrew: תָּא‎ (he) m (ta)
Hungarian: sejt (hu)
Italian: cellula (it) f
Japanese: 班 (ja) (はん, han)
Korean: 반(班) (ko) (ban)
Portuguese: célula (pt) f
Romanian: celulă (ro) f
Russian: яче́йка (ru) f (jačéjka)
Slovak: bunka (sk)
Spanish: célula (es) f
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c
Ukrainian: осере́док m (oserédok)
Walloon: trokete f

small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front

basic unit of a living organism

Afrikaans: sel (af)
Albanian: qelizë (sq) f
Arabic: خَلِيَّة‎ f (ḵaliyya)

Egyptian Arabic: خلية‎ f (ḵaleiya)
Armenian: բջիջ (hy) (bǰiǰ)
Azerbaijani: hüceyrə (az)
Balinese: ᬓᭀᬲᬶᬓ (kosika)
Bashkir: күҙәнәк (küðänäk)
Belarusian: кле́тка f (kljétka), камо́рка f (kamórka)
Bengali: কোষ (bn) (kōś)
Bulgarian: кле́тка (bg) f (klétka)
Burmese: ကလာပ်စည်း (my) (ka.lapcany:)
Catalan: cèl·lula (ca) f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 細胞／细胞 (sai³ baau¹)

Mandarin: 細胞／细胞 (zh) (xìbāo)

Min Nan: 細胞／细胞 (zh-min-nan) (sè-pau/suè-pau)
Cornish: kell f
Czech: buňka (cs) f
Danish: celle (da) c
Dutch: cel (nl) f
Esperanto: ĉelo (eo)
Estonian: rakk
Faroese: kykna f
Finnish: solu (fi)
French: cellule (fr) f
Galician: célula (gl) f
Georgian: უჯრედი (uǯredi)
German: Zelle (de) f
Greek: κύτταρο (el) n (kýttaro)
Hebrew: תָּא‎ (he) m (ta)
Hindi: कोशिका (hi) f (kośikā)
Hungarian: sejt (hu)
Icelandic: fruma (is) f
Ido: celulo (io)
Indonesian: sel (id)
Irish: cill f
Italian: cellula (it) f
Japanese: 細胞 (ja) (さいぼう, saibō)
Kannada: ಜೀವಕೋಶ (kn) (jīvakōśa)
Kazakh: жасуша (jasuşa)
Khmer: កោសិកា (km) (kaosekaa)
Korean: 세포(細胞) (ko) (sepo)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: xane (ku) f
Kyrgyz: клетка (ky) (kletka)
Lao: ຈຸລັງ (lo) (chu lang)
Latin: cellula f
Latvian: šūna f
Lithuanian: ląstelė f
Macedonian: клетка f (kletka)
Malay: sel (ms)
Malayalam: കോശം (ml) (kōśaṃ)
Maltese: ċellula f
Manx: killag f
Maori: pūtau
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: эс (mn) (es)
Navajo: hinááh bijéí
Norwegian:

Bokmål: celle (no) m or f, selle (no) m or f
Occitan: cellula (oc) f
Pashto: ژوندينکه‎, ژونکه‎ (ps), خونګۍ‎ f (xungǝ́y), کوټنۍ‎ f (koṭanǝ́y)
Persian: یاخته‎ (fa) (yâxte), سلول‎ (fa) (sellul), حجره‎ (fa) (hojre) (Dari)
Polish: komórka (pl) f
Portuguese: célula (pt) f
Romanian: celulă (ro) f
Russian: кле́тка (ru) f (klétka)
Scottish Gaelic: cealla f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ста̀ница f, ћѐлија f

Roman: stànica (sh) f, ćèlija f
Sinhalese: සෛල (saila)
Slovak: bunka (sk) f
Slovene: celica (sl) f
Spanish: célula (es) f
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c
Tagalog: selula
Tajik: ҳуҷайра (tg) (hujayra), клетка (kletka)
Tamil: உயிரணு (ta) (uyiraṇu)
Tatar: күзәнәк (tt) (küzänäk)
Telugu: కణము (te) (kaṇamu)
Thai: เซลล์ (th) (seel), เซล (seel)
Turkish: hücre (tr)
Turkmen: öýjük
Ukrainian: кліти́на (uk) f (klitýna), комі́рка f (komírka)
Urdu: خلیہ‎ (ur)
Uyghur: ھۈجەيرە‎ (hüjeyre)
Uzbek: hujayra (uz)
Vietnamese: tế bào (vi) (細胞)
Volapük: siül (vo)
Walloon: celure (wa) f
Welsh: cell (cy) f
Yiddish: צעל‎ (tsel)
Zazaki: hucre m

biological cavity

Arabic: خَلِيَّة‎ f (ḵaliyya)
Armenian: բջիջ (hy) (bǰiǰ)
Bulgarian: кили́йка f (kilíjka)
Cornish: kell f
Czech: buňka (cs) f
Danish: celle (da) c
Faroese: kykna f
Finnish: kenno (fi) (of a honeycomb)
French: cellule (fr) f (of a honeycomb)
Greek: οπή (el) f (opí), κελί (el) n (kelí)
Hungarian: lépsejt
Japanese: 巣穴 (すあな, suana)
Latvian: šūna f
Lithuanian: akis (lt) f
Macedonian: ќелија f (ḱelija)
Maltese: xehda f
Polish: komórka (pl) f
Portuguese: célula (pt) f
Russian: яче́йка (ru) f (jačéjka)
Slovak: bunka (sk) f
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: cell (sv) c
Ukrainian: комі́рка f (komírka)
Volapük: ziöb (vo)
Welsh: cell (cy) f

minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior

Japanese: セル (seru)
Macedonian: ќелија f (ḱelija)
Polish: komórka (pl) f
Swahili: seli (sw)

geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope

Korean: 포(胞) (ko) (po)
Macedonian: ќелија f (ḱelija)
Swahili: seli (sw)

statistics: the unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect

Verb[edit]

cell (third-person singular simple present cells, present participle celling, simple past and past participle celled)

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion’s England:
  
  Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found

Etymology 2[edit]

From cell phone, from cellular phone, from cellular + telephone.

Noun[edit]

cell (plural cells)

(US, informal) A cellular phone.

Usage notes[edit]

Widely used attributively.

Translations[edit]

informal: a cellular telephone — See also translations at mobile phone

Afrikaans: selfoon (af)
Arabic: خَلَوِيّ‎ (ḵalawiyy)
Armenian: բջջային (hy) (bǰǰayin)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 手機／手机 (sau² gei¹), 手提 (sau² tai⁴)

Mandarin: 手機／手机 (zh) (shǒujī), 大哥大 (zh) (dàgēdà) (slang)
Dutch: mobieltje (nl) n
Finnish: kännykkä (fi) (informal)
French: portable (fr) m, mobile (fr) m
German: Handy (de) n
Greek: κινητό (el) n (kinitó), κινητό τηλέφωνο (el) n (kinitó tiléfono)
Hebrew: סלולרי‎ m (selolári)
Indonesian: telepon seluler (id)
Italian: cellulare (it)
Japanese: ケータイ (ja) (kētai), 携帯電話 (ja) (keitai denwa)
Macedonian: мобилен m (mobilen)
Polish: komórka (pl) f
Portuguese: (telefone (pt)) celular (pt) m
Romanian: celular (ro) n, mobil (ro) n
Russian: моби́ла (ru) f (mobíla), моби́льный телефо́н (ru) m (mobílʹnyj telefón), моби́льник (ru) m (mobílʹnik), сото́вый (ru) m (sotóvyj), со́товый телефо́н (ru) m (sótovyj telefón), со́тик (ru) m (sótik)
Spanish: teléfono móvil m, móvil (es) m, teléfono celular m, celular (es) m
Swahili: seli (sw)
Swedish: mobil (sv)
Telugu: సెల్ (sel)
Turkish: cep (tr), cep telefonu (tr)

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of cellulair or borrowed directly from English cell.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /sɛl/
Hyphenation: cell

Noun[edit]

cell m (plural cells, diminutive celltje n)

(Suriname, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone.
- 2001, Alex van Stipriaan, “Contact! Marrons en de transport- en communicatierevolutie in het Surinaamse binnenland [Contact! Maroons and the transport and communication revolution in Suriname’s hinterland]”, in OSO. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis‎^[1], page 41:
  
  Door de ‘cell’ is het mogelijk de banden met verwanten elders innig te houden of zelfs te herstellen.
  
  The mobile phone makes it possible to keep close ties with relatives elsewhere or even to restore them.
Synonyms: (Belgium) gsm, (Netherlands) mobiel

Derived terms[edit]

cellnummer

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of cellulaire; influenced by North American English cell

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /sɛl/

Noun[edit]

cell m (plural cells)

(Quebec, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone; clipping of téléphone cellulaire.

Synonyms: portable, téléphone portable, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, mobile

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

cell

Alternative form of celle

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin cella.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /kʲel͈/

Noun[edit]

cell f

church

Inflection[edit]

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cell^L	ceill^L, cill^N	cella^H
Vocative	cell^L	ceill^L, cill^N	cella^H
Accusative	ceill^N, cill^N	ceill^L, cill^N	cella^H
Genitive	cille^H	cell^L	cell^N
Dative	ceill^L, cill^N	cellaib	cellaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants[edit]

Irish: cill
Manx: keeill
Scottish Gaelic: cill

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cell	chell	cell pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cella

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cell c

cell; a room in a prison.
Cell; a room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
Cell; a small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
(biology) Cell; the basic unit of a living organism.
(biology) Cell; a cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb.
(computing) Cell; a minimal unit of a cellular automaton.

Declension[edit]

Declension of cell
	Singular	Plural
Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cell	cellen	celler	cellerna
Genitive	cells	cellens	cellers	cellernas

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh kell, from Proto-Brythonic *kell, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /kɛɬ/

Noun[edit]

cell f (plural celloedd, diminutive cellan)

cell

Derived terms[edit]

cell waed (“blood cell”)
cellbilen (“cell membrane”)
cellfur (“cell wall”)
cellog (“cellular”)
cellraniad (“cell division”)
claddgell (“burial chamber”)
gwaetgel (“blood cell”)
llyfrgell (“library”)

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cell	gell	nghell	chell
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Источник

Word	CELL
Character	4
Hyphenation	cell
Pronunciations	/sɛl/

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Literature

Music

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Groups of people

Rooms

Science, mathematics, and technology

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