cell

Etymology 1
From, , from (attested in inflected forms), from , later reinforced by , ,. ultimately from, from , from. .

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)  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)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
 * 3)  The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
 * 4)  In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
 * 5) A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
 * 6)  A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
 * 7)  A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
 * 8)  A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
 * 9)  The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
 * 10)  The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
 * 11)  A cella.
 * 12)  An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
 * 1) A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
 * 2)  A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
 * 3)  A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
 * 4)  A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
 * 5)  The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
 * 6)  The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
 * 7)  A cella.
 * 8)  An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
 * 1)  The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
 * 2)  The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
 * 3)  A cella.
 * 4)  An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Usage notes
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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:cell

Translations

 * Arabic: خَلِيَّة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 電池, 電芯
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: kell
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Batteriezelle
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: akkumulátorcella
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 셀,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: батерија
 * Maltese: ċellola
 * Maori: pūhiko
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: článok
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: زِنْزَانَة
 * Belarusian: ка́мера
 * Bulgarian: кили́я
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: calabós,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: kell
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: fangarúm, klivi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საკანი
 * German:, Haftraum
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ກ້ອງຂັງ
 * Latvian: kamera
 * Lithuanian: kamera
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Malayalam: ജയിലറ
 * Maltese: ċella
 * Manx: killeen
 * Norman: cachot
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ћѐлија
 * Roman: ćèlija
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, bartolina , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: صَوْمَعَة, كِرْح
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ке́лля
 * Bulgarian: кили́я
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: kell
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Mönchszelle
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: celle
 * Lithuanian: celė
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Maltese: ċella
 * Manx: keeill, killeen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ћѐлија
 * Roman: ćèlija
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: ке́лія
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: خَلِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: осере́док
 * Walloon: trokete


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:, zivatarcella
 * Polish: komórka burzowa
 * Swahili:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَلِيَّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: خلية
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Balinese: ᬓᭀᬲᬶᬓ
 * Bashkir: күҙәнәк
 * Belarusian: кле́тка, камо́рка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 細胞
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: kell
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rakk
 * Faroese: kykna
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cill
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: жасуша
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຈຸລັງ
 * Latin: cellula
 * Latvian: šūna
 * Lithuanian: ląstelė
 * Macedonian: клетка
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ċellula
 * Manx: killag
 * Maori: pūtau
 * Marathi: पेशी
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: hinááh bijéí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: ژوندينکه,, خونګۍ, کوټنۍ
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cealla
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ста̀ница, ћѐлија
 * Roman:, ćèlija
 * Sinhalese: සෛල
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: selula
 * Tajik:, клетка
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, เซล
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: öýjük
 * Ukrainian:, комі́рка
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ھۈجەيرە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (細胞)
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: צעל
 * Zazaki: hucre


 * Arabic: خَلِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: кили́йка
 * Cornish: kell
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Faroese: kykna
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: lépsejt
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: šūna
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Maltese: xehda
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: комі́рка
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic: خَلِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Polish:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:


 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ќелија
 * Swahili:


 * Hungarian:, táblázatcella


 * Interlingua:
 * Lithuanian: (1, 2);  (3-5)
 * Sinhalese:

Verb

 * 1)  To place or enclose in a cell.

Etymology 2
, itself a, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A cellular phone.

Usage notes

 * Widely used attributively.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: خَلَوِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 手機, 手提
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: סלולרי
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: мобилен телефон
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Spanish: teléfono móvil,, teléfono celular,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సెల్
 * Turkish: ,

Etymology
or borrowed directly from.

Etymology

 * influenced by North American

Noun

 * 1)  cellular phone, mobile phone;

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) church

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) ; a room in a prison.
 * 2) Cell; a room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
 * 3) Cell; a small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
 * 4)  Cell; the basic unit of a living organism.
 * 5)  Cell; a cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb.
 * 6)  Cell; a minimal unit of a cellular automaton.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) cell