Word Finder - cell

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A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

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A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

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A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

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Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

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The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

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• prison cell

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Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

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Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

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The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

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Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

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A section or compartment of a larger structure.

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Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

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A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

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This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

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The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

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A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

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There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

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The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

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The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

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In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

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A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

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Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

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(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.

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Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

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(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

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I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

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A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

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The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

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The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

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A cella.

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An area of an insect wing bounded by veins

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To place or enclose in a cell.

The cell reproduced and the organism grew.

In every cell of your body except your red blood cells exists a copy of your DNA.

In 1902, an American named Walter Sutton noticed that chromosomes duplicated themselves before cells divided so that each new cell had a full copy of the chromosomes.

We were startled by the ring of my cell phone.

I tried to call you on your cell phone, but I didn't get an answer.

My cell phone alerted me to a message.

Each cell measures 35 cub.

He took her to the holding cell.

Rhyn made a racket in his cell.

I have more freedom than you when I'm not in this cell.

The animal cell can absorb its carbohydrate and proteid food only in the form of carbohydrate and proteid; it is dependent, in fact, on the pre-existence of these organic substances, themselves the products of living matter, and in this respect the animal is essentially a parasite on existing animal and plant life.

When Ne'Rin signaled all was ready, he strode from the deck into the corridor and straight to her cell.

The cell where she sat measured six by six with a grey bench.

The 'holding cell' was a lavishly appointed 700 square foot room.

Connor's description of being in the holding cell 'losing his mind and living a nightmare' accurately described his feelings.

Elisabeth stared straight ahead, then picked up her cell phone and walked out of the kitchen.

They walked in silence to the holding cell.

He slunk down to the holding cell to face the music.

Okay, let me give you my cell number.

The three sat in the kitchenette of the holding cell since Sarah refused to leave Connor, even for a minute.

He found Sarah and Connor on the sofa in the holding cell.

Maybe you could just give me her cell number.

Toby huddled against the black stone wall of his cell in Hell.

Ully called from the cell across the narrow hallway.

Toby looked up as the familiar demon named Jared passed his cell, trailed by two demons carrying a body with another familiar face.

His long time friend, the assassin, was bloodied and unconscious.  The demons tossed Gabriel's body into a dark cell two down from Ully's before they left.

Gabriel's furious curse made Toby jump.  Toby looked his direction the best he could through the bars of his cell and saw the walls around the dark cell shake.

Toby asked, pressing his face against the cell door.

Do you have your cell phone?

Keep your cell phone handy.

The somatic cells represent communities or republics, as it were, which we name organs and tissues, but each cell possesses a certain autonomy and independence of action, and exhibits phenomena which are indicative of vitality.

Still, it must be borne in mind that this alleged autonomy of action is said to be founded upon an erroneous supposition, on the supposition that each cell is structurally, and it may be said functionally, separated from those in its neighbourhood.

It is well known that in the vegetable kingdom the protoplasm of one cell frequently overflows into that of cells adjacent - that there is, as it were, a continuous network of protoplasm (idioplasm of Nageli) prevailing throughout vegetable tissues, rather than an aggregation of isolated units.

Until, however, further evidence is forthcoming in support of this syncytial theory of structure, it would be unwise to regard it as established sufficiently to constitute a serviceable working hypothesis; hence, for the time being, we must accept the assertion that the cell represents the ultimate tissue-unit.

Our present day definition of a cell is a minute portion of living organized substance or protoplasm.

The cell body, or cytoplasm, is apparently composed of a fine reticulum or network, containing within the meshes a soft viscid, transparent substance, the cell-sap, or hyaloplasm, which is probably a nutrient material to the living cell.

Usually the cytoplasm shows a marked affinity for the acid stains, but the different bodies found in the cell may show great variation in their staining reactions.

Cell in a state of degeneration and chromatolysis; the large rounded body in the cell is a cancer parasite.

Pigmented cell with resting nucleus.

Then we have the property of adaptation, in which the negative reaction may be changed into a positive; a given toxin may at first repel the cell, but by a gradual process the cell becomes accustomed to such a toxin and will move towards it.

Where the material is too large to be taken up by an individual cell, the dissolution is brought about by the cells surrounding the material, to which they closely apply themselves, and by the secreting of the ferment, a gradual process of erosion is brought about with ultimate absorption.

We have already compared the body to a social community, each constituent element of which - the cell - lives its own life but subordinates its individuality to the good of the whole organism.

The epithelial cells are then able to pass from their normal position, in consequence of which they proliferate and at the same time revert to a more primitive type of cell.

Hansemann's "anaplasia " hypothesis seeks to find an explanation of the formation of new growths in the absence of the histological differentiation of the cell associated with a corresponding increase in its proliferative power and a suspension, or loss, of its functional activity.

This splitting up of the fats previously combined with albumin in the cell by the action of natural ferments - lipases - and the setting free of the fats under the influence of toxins represent the normal and the pathological process in the production of so-called fatty degeneration.

Midnight was long past when Savonarola was led back to his cell.

The sounds of Rhyn slamming his body into his cell and snarling awoke her sometime later.

He retreated to his cell and sat against the wall again, troubled by a familiar feeling of helplessness.

She eyed the door at the end of the hall, then her cell, and turned 360.

She'd lived through too much the past few days to be eaten by some boogeyman in a dark cell!