cell

cell has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
• n.. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
• n.. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
• n.. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
• n.. Same as Cella.
• n.. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
• n.. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
• v. t.. To place or inclose in a cell.
• n.. (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
• n.. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
• n.. a room where a prisoner is kept
• n.. small room in which a monk or nun lives