Thesaurus: cell

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1. n. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
2. n. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
3. n. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
4. n. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
5. n. Same as Cella.
6. n. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
7. n. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
8. v. t. To place or inclose in a cell.
9. n. any small compartment
10. 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
11. n. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
12. n. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement