cell

UK /sɛl/ US /sɛl/
noun 6verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].

For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.

2

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

3

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.

A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.

4

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

The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

5

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

verb

1

To place or enclose in a cell.

Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found

noun

1

A cellular phone.

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