cell

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
    — So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
  2. A cellular phone. Australia,India,New-Zealand,Philippines,US
  3. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. historical
  4. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
    — Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
  5. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
    — The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
  6. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
  7. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
    — Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].
  8. The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
  9. Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. obsolete
    — How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.
  10. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
  11. Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. literary,obsolete
    — Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].
  12. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
    — This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
  13. 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.
    — An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
  14. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
    — There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
  15. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
    — The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
  16. In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
  17. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
    — Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
  18. A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
    — Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
  19. A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
    — I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
  20. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
  21. The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
  22. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
  23. A cella.
  24. An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
动词 v.
  1. To place or enclose in a cell. transitive
    — Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found

词形变化

cells plural cells present,singular,third-person celling participle,present celled participle,past celled past cells plural

词汇关系

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120-cell 16-cell 24-cell 57-cell 5-cell 600-cell 8-cell absorption cell air cell alpha cell angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma antigen-presenting cell APUD cell attocell auxiliary cell band cell barycell basal cell basal cell carcinoma basket cell battery cell B cell B-cell Bénard cell beta cell Betz cell biological fuel cell bipolar cell bite cell black queen cell virus blast cell blister cell blood-cell blood cell brain cell brood cell bulliform cell Bunsen cell burr cell button cell cancer cell Castner cell caudodorsal cell hormone cell-adhesion molecule cell adhesion molecule cell block cellblock cell body cellbound cell-cell junction cellco cell count cell cycle cell death cell division cell-free cellful cell group cell house cellhouse cellie celliferous celliform cell junction cellless cell line cellmate cell-mediated immune response cell-mediated immunity cell membrane cell nucleus cell of Deiters cellome cell-oriented programming cell-phone cell phone lot cell plate cell sap cell shading cellspot cell theory cell therapy cell tower cell type cell up cell-wall cell wall cellwide cellwise cellwork celly cell yell character cell chemical cell chief cell Chinese hamster ovary cell chloragogen cell CHO cell Clara cell Clark cell club cell coin cell companion cell concentration cell cone cell connecting cell cons cell convection cell counting cell hemocytometer crowfoot cell crystal cell cytolytic T cell cytotoxic T cell Daniell cell daughter cell death cell Deiters' cell delta cell dendritic cell detention cell diamond anvil cell diaphragm cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma direct-to-cell Downey cell Downs cell dry cell dry cell battery egg cell electrochemical cell enzymatic fuel cell epithelial cell fat cell femtocell Ferrata cell flame cell flow cell foam cell follicular dendritic cell free cell formation fuel cell fuel cell vehicle galvanic cell geocell germ cell glial cell glue cell goblet cell grand 600-cell grandmother cell granular cell tumor granule cell grape cell gravity cell grid cell grit cell Grove cell guard cell guardian cell Hadley cell hair cell hairy cell half cell half-cell Hargreaves-Bird cell head cell HeLa cell helper T cell hematopoietic cell holding cell Hooker cell host cell hot cell hypercell immune cell inner cell mass intercell intracell intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell IT cell jail cell Jurkat cell k-cell Kenyon cell Kerr cell killer T cell koniocellular cell Kupffer cell Langerhans cell lasso cell Leclanché cell Leydig cell light green cell hormone lip cell load cell local cell macrocell macroglial cell magnocellular cell Malpighian cell mast cell mastoid cell M-cell megaspore mother cell melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell memory B cell memory cell memory T cell Merkel cell Merkel-Ranvier cell mesenchymal cell mesenchymal stem cell metacell Mexican hat cell microbial fuel cell microcell midcell mid cell midget cell minicell mitral cell morula cell mossy cell mother cell Mott cell multicell myeloid cell nanocell natural killer cell nerve cell nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome noncell oat cell obcell outer phalangeal cell padded cell Paget cell palisade cell Paneth cell parasol cell parietal cell parvocellular cell pavement cell P-cell pericentral cell photo-cell photocell photoconductive cell photoelectric cell photoemissive cell photosensitive retinal ganglion cell photovoltaic cell picocell place cell plasma cell PMN cell polycell polymorphonuclear cell precell prickle cell primary cell wall primordial cell prison cell progenitor cell programmed cell death protocell pseudocell Purkinje cell pyramidal cell queen cell radial glial cell red blood cell red blood cell cast red cell Reed-Sternberg cell renal cell carcinoma Renshaw cell reproductive cell retort cell rod cell satellite cell Schwann cell secondary cell secondary cell wall segment cell selenium cell semicell sensel Sertoli cell Sertoli cell-only syndrome sex cell sickle cell sickle cell anaemia sickle-cell anaemia sickle-cell anemia sickle-cell disease sickle cell trait sieve cell single-celling skin cell sleeper cell small-cell carcinoma smudge cell solar cell somatic cell somatic cell nuclear transfer sperm cell spindle cell spinous cell spur cell stab cell stellate cell stem cell stem-cell stone cell storage cell strip cell stromal cell subcell supercell supergranulation cell target cell T cell T-cell terror cell T helper cell tracheid cell Traube cell trophic cell Türk cell unicell unit cell vegetative cell Virchow's cell virocell voltaic cell Vorce cell Voronoi cell Walthard cell rest water cell Weston cell wet cell white blood cell white-cell white cell Wigner-Seitz cell zombie cell

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词源 1
From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.
词源 2
Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.
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