cell
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: cells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: celling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: celled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: celled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
pos: noun
examples: So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
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.
gloss: A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
pos: noun
examples: Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.
gloss: A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
pos: noun
examples: The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
gloss: Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
pos: noun
examples: Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].
gloss: The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
pos: noun
gloss: Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.
[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.
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.
gloss: A section or compartment of a larger structure.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
pos: noun
tags: literary
obsolete
examples: Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].
Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].
gloss: A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
pos: noun
examples: This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
gloss: A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
pos: noun
examples: There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
gloss: The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
pos: noun
examples: The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.
It is used for land-use change simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain agriculture.)
I've seen this space colloquially referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)
gloss: In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
pos: noun
gloss: A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
pos: noun
examples: Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
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.
gloss: A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
pos: noun
examples: Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
gloss: A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
pos: noun
examples: I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
gloss: A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
pos: noun
gloss: The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
pos: noun
gloss: The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
pos: noun
gloss: A cella.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
pos: noun
gloss: To place or enclose in a cell.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found
Synonyms: cell
cyte
Related words: cellar
cellular
cellule
:Category:Cytology
Derived words: 120-cell
16-cell
24-cell
57-cell
5-cell
600-cell
8-cell
absorption cell
air cell
alpha cell
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
antigen-presenting cell
APUD cell
attocell
auxiliary cell
band cell
barycell
basal cell
basal cell carcinoma
basket cell
battery cell
B cell
B-cell
Bénard 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
brood cell
bulliform cell
Bunsen cell
burr cell
button cell
cancer cell
Castner cell
caudodorsal cell hormone
cell-adhesion molecule
cell adhesion molecule
cell block
cellblock
cell body
cellbound
cell-cell junction
cellco
cell count
cell cycle
cell death
cell division
cell-free
cellful
cell group
cell house
cellhouse
cellie
celliferous
celliform
cell junction
cellless
cell line
cellmate
cell-mediated immune response
cell-mediated immunity
cell membrane
cell nucleus
cell of Deiters
cellome
cell-oriented programming
cell-phone
cell phone lot
cell plate
cell sap
cell shading
cellspot
cell theory
cell therapy
cell tower
cell type
cell up
cell-wall
cell wall
cellwide
cellwise
cellwork
celly
cell yell
character cell
chemical cell
chief cell
Chinese hamster ovary cell
chloragogen cell
CHO cell
Clara cell
Clark cell
club cell
coin cell
companion cell
concentration cell
cone cell
connecting cell
cons cell
convection cell
counting cell hemocytometer
crowfoot cell
crystal cell
cytolytic T cell
cytotoxic T cell
Daniell cell
daughter cell
death cell
Deiters' cell
delta cell
dendritic cell
detention cell
diamond anvil cell
diaphragm cell
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
direct-to-cell
Downey cell
Downs cell
dry cell
dry cell battery
egg cell
electrochemical cell
enzymatic fuel cell
epithelial cell
fat cell
femtocell
Ferrata cell
flame cell
flow cell
foam cell
follicular dendritic cell
free cell formation
fuel cell
fuel cell vehicle
galvanic cell
geocell
germ cell
glial cell
glue cell
goblet cell
grand 600-cell
grandmother cell
granular cell tumor
granule cell
grape cell
gravity cell
grid cell
grit cell
Grove cell
guard cell
guardian cell
Hadley cell
hair cell
hairy cell
half cell
half-cell
Hargreaves-Bird cell
head cell
HeLa cell
helper T cell
hematopoietic cell
holding cell
Hooker cell
host cell
hot cell
hypercell
immune cell
inner cell mass
intercell
intracell
intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
IT cell
jail cell
Jurkat cell
k-cell
K-cell
Kenyon cell
Kerr cell
killer T cell
koniocellular cell
Kupffer cell
Langerhans cell
lasso cell
Leclanché cell
Leydig cell
light green cell hormone
lip cell
load cell
local cell
macrocell
macroglial cell
magnocellular cell
Malpighian cell
mast cell
mastoid cell
M-cell
megaspore mother cell
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
memory B cell
memory cell
memory T cell
Merkel cell
Merkel-Ranvier cell
mesenchymal cell
mesenchymal stem cell
metacell
Mexican hat cell
microbial fuel cell
microcell
midcell
mid cell
midget cell
minicell
mitral cell
morula cell
mossy cell
mother cell
Mott cell
multicell
myeloid cell
nanocell
natural killer cell
nerve cell
nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome
noncell
oat cell
obcell
outer phalangeal cell
padded cell
Paget cell
palisade cell
Paneth cell
parasol cell
parietal cell
parvocellular cell
pavement cell
P-cell
pericentral cell
photo-cell
photocell
photoconductive cell
photoelectric cell
photoemissive cell
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
photovoltaic cell
picocell
place cell
plasma cell
PMN cell
polycell
polymorphonuclear cell
precell
prickle cell
primary cell wall
primordial cell
prison cell
progenitor cell
programmed cell death
protocell
pseudocell
Purkinje cell
pyramidal cell
queen cell
radial glial cell
red blood cell
red blood cell cast
red cell
Reed-Sternberg cell
renal cell carcinoma
Renshaw cell
reproductive cell
retort cell
rod cell
satellite cell
Schwann cell
secondary cell
secondary cell wall
segment cell
selenium cell
semicell
sensel
Sertoli cell
Sertoli cell-only syndrome
sex cell
sickle cell
sickle cell anaemia
sickle-cell anaemia
sickle-cell anemia
sickle-cell disease
sickle cell trait
sieve cell
single-celling
skin cell
sleeper cell
small-cell carcinoma
smudge cell
solar cell
somatic cell
somatic cell nuclear transfer
sperm cell
spindle cell
spinous cell
spur cell
stab cell
stellate cell
stem cell
stem-cell
stone cell
storage cell
strip cell
stromal cell
subcell
supercell
supergranulation cell
target cell
T cell
T-cell
terror cell
T helper cell
tracheid cell
Traube cell
trophic cell
Türk cell
unicell
unit cell
vegetative cell
Virchow's cell
virocell
voltaic cell
Vorce cell
Voronoi cell
Walthard cell rest
water cell
Weston cell
wet cell
white blood cell
white-cell
white cell
Wigner-Seitz cell
zombie cell
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sel
lang: Albanian
word: birucë
lang: Albanian
word: qeli
lang: Arabic
word: زِنْزَانَة
roman: zinzāna
lang: Belarusian
word: ка́мера
roman: kámjera
lang: Bulgarian
word: кили́я
roman: kilíja
lang: Burmese
word: အချုပ်ခန်း
roman: a.hkyuphkan:
lang: Catalan
word: calabós
lang: Catalan
word: cel·la
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 牢房
roman: láofáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 獨房 /独房
roman: dúfáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 囚室
roman: qiúshì
lang: Cornish
word: kell
lang: Czech
word: cela
lang: Danish
word: celle
lang: Dutch
word: cel
lang: Faroese
word: fangarúm
lang: Faroese
word: klivi
lang: Finnish
word: selli
lang: Finnish
word: tyrmä
lang: French
word: cellule
lang: Galician
word: cela
lang: Georgian
word: საკანი
roman: saḳani
lang: German
word: Zelle
lang: German
word: Haftraum
lang: Greek
word: κελί
roman: kelí
lang: Hebrew
word: תָּא
roman: ta
lang: Hungarian
word: cella
lang: Hungarian
word: zárka
lang: Hungarian
word: börtöncella
lang: Icelandic
word: klefi
lang: Icelandic
word: fangaklefi
lang: Indonesian
word: sel
lang: Irish
word: cillín
lang: Italian
word: cella
lang: Japanese
word: 独房
roman: dokubō
lang: Khmer
word: កោសិកា
roman: kaosekaa
lang: Korean
word: 독방
roman: dokbang
lang: Lao
word: ກ້ອງຂັງ
roman: kǭng khang
lang: Latvian
word: kamera
lang: Lithuanian
word: kamera
lang: Macedonian
word: ќелија
roman: ḱelija
lang: Malay
word: sel
lang: Malayalam
word: ജയിലറ
roman: jayilaṟa
lang: Maltese
word: ċella
lang: Manx
word: killeen
lang: Norman
word: cachot
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: celle
lang: Iranian Persian
word: حُجْرِه
roman: hojre
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سِلول
roman: selul
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سِلّول
roman: sellul
lang: Polish
word: cela
lang: Portuguese
word: cela
lang: Romanian
word: celulă
lang: Russian
word: ка́мера
roman: kámera
lang: Russian
word: кле́тка
roman: klétka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ћѐлија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ćèlija
lang: Slovak
word: cela
lang: Spanish
word: celda
lang: Spanish
word: bartolina
lang: Spanish
word: estancia
lang: Spanish
word: calabozo
lang: Swahili
word: seli
lang: Swedish
word: cell
lang: Tamil
word: அறை
roman: aṟai
lang: Thai
word: กรง
roman: grong
lang: Turkish
word: hücre
lang: Ukrainian
word: ка́мера
roman: kámera
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng giam
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng tù
lang: Volapük
word: leziöb
lang: Walloon
word: gayole
lang: Welsh
word: cell