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Cell

noun

Any small compartment.

(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.

A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction. Synonym: electric cell.

A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement. Synonym: cadre.

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver. Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone.

Small room in which a monk or nun lives. Synonym: cubicle.

A room where a prisoner is kept. Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell.

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"Cell" Quotes from Famous Books

... taken to a cell. Silence fell once more upon the office. The Sergeant made a few red lines in the blotter and resumed his reveries. He was not in a mood for work. He hitched his chair nearer the window and looked across the yard. But the lights ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... Obed Chute, in calm, measured tones, "you are very aggravating. It is well that you have generous people to deal with. I don't know but that I ought to take you now and hand you over to the police, to be lodged in the same cell ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... contain my joy when my father, in the intervals of tapping the barometer and complaining of the cold, began to look out which were the best trains, and when I understood that by making one's way, after luncheon, into the coal-grimed laboratory, the wizard's cell that undertook to contrive a complete transmutation of its surroundings, one could awaken, next morning, in the city of marble and gold, in which "the building of the wall was of jasper and the foundation of the wall an emerald." So that it and ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... difficult for me to feel cheerful at that moment. Indeed, when the prison doors closed upon me, when I found myself alone in my dark cell, I became dazed and stupid, and began to think that perhaps after all I was the murderer that I had been called. Yet what could it all mean? Colin Lothian murdered! My old ...

— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton

... belonged to what has been properly called the Roman stratocracy then disposing of the world, that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel, the Emperor Galba, at whose feet Nero had been self-immolated, was laid a murdered corpse in the same identical cell which had witnessed the lingering agonies of his unhappy victim. This was the act of an emancipated slave, anxious, by a vindictive insult to the remains of one prince, to place on record his gratitude to ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

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