- the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells.
- red and white blood cells
- brain/nerve/cancer cells
- the nucleus of a cell
- Cells divide and form new cells.
Homophones cell | sellcell sellTopics Biologyb2, Bodyb2/sel//sel/- cell noun
- Genes for human skin exist in every human cell.
- sell verb
- He suggests she sell her house and go to Brazil with him.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dead
- living
- healthy
- …
- create
- form
- grow
- …
- divide
- develop
- form
- …
- division
- growth
- proliferation
- …
- the nucleus of a cell
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- a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station
- in a cell He spent a night in a prison cell.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- monk’s
- nun’s
- jail
- …
- in a/the cell
- a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun livesOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- monk’s
- nun’s
- jail
- …
- in a/the cell
- each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a honeycomb
- a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light
- a photoelectric cell
- a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly
- a terrorist cell
- one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data
- (especially North American English, informal) (also cell phone, cellular phone (both especially North American English), British English mobile phone, mobile)a phone that does not have wires and works by radio, and that you can carry with you and use anywhere
- Call me on my cell.
Word OriginOld English, from Old French celle or Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.
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