cell
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition any small compartment
- definition (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
- definition a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- definition a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- definition a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- definition small room in which a monk or nun lives
- definition a room where a prisoner is kept