cell
cell is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
- noun. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
- noun. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
- noun. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- noun. Same as Cella.
- noun. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
- noun. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
- transitive verb. To place or inclose in a 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
- noun. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- noun. a room where a prisoner is kept
- noun. small room in which a monk or nun lives
- noun. any small compartment
"the cells of a honeycomb"
- noun. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- noun. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
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