cell¹ /sel/

1. The unit, consisting of nucleus and cytoplasm and bounded by a membrane, of which plants and animals are composed, surrounded in the former by a non-living wall
2. The whole bacterium or yeast, the bacterial cell
3. A small room in a prison, monastery, etc
4. A vessel with electrodes and an electrolyte for electrolysis, or an apparatus for generating an electric current by chemical action, esp a dry battery
5. A unit group, esp of espionage personnel, political activists or terrorists
6. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on another
7. One compartment of a honeycomb
8. A hermit's one-roomed dwelling
9. The cavity containing pollen in an anther lobe (botany)
10. One chamber in an ovary (botany)
11. One of the spaces into which the wing of an insect is divided (zoology)
12. (a radio transmitter serving) one of the geographical areas into which Britain is divided for the coverage of cellular radio (qv below)
13. A part of the atmosphere that behaves as a unit (meteorology)
14. A cellphone (informal)
15. A unit of homogenous reactivity in a nuclear reactor core
16. A unit or area of storage, eg the smallest unit capable of storing a single bit (computing)
17. A location on a spreadsheet (computing)

celled adjective

Having cells, cellular

cellifˈerous adjective

Having or producing cells

cellˈūlar adjective

1. Consisting of, characterized by or containing cells or compartments
2. Relating to or involving cells in the body
3. Consisting of a number of separate rooms, as in cellular office
4. Composed of ordinary cells without vessels (as the lower cryptogams)
5. Porous
6. Of open texture

cellularˈity noun

cellˈūlāted adjective

• the bonk
• the bottom has fallen out of the market
• the Bowery
• the box
• the boy next door
• the boys in blue
• the brass
• the brief and the long
• the bright lights
• the briny
• the buck stops here
• the business
• theca
• thecae
• thecal
• the Cape
• the cap fits
• the cardinal virtues
• the case
• thecate
• the cat's got your tongue
• the cat's pyjamas
• the cat's whiskers
• the Chalk
• the chances are