cell

1. n. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. Source: opted

2. n. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. Source: opted

3. n. Any small cavity, or hollow place. Source: opted

4. n. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. Source: opted

5. n. Same as Cella. Source: opted

6. n. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

8. v. t. To place or inclose in a cell. Source: opted

9. n. any small compartment Source: wordnet

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 Source: wordnet

11. n. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction Source: wordnet

12. n. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement Source: wordnet

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