Cell

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. {Priories}. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
     {Prior}, n.]
     A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
     sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and
     called also {cell}, and {obedience}. See {Cell}, 2.
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     Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the
           prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as
           independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where
           the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior
           was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
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     {Alien priory}, a small religious house dependent on a large
        monastery in some other country.
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     Syn: See {Cloister}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cell \Cell\, n. [OF. celle, fr. L. cella; akin to celare to
     hide, and E. hell, helm, conceal. Cf. {Hall}.]
     1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a
        monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
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              The heroic confessor in his cell.     --Macaulay.
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     2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or
        convent. "Cells or dependent priories." --Milman.
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     3. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
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     4. (Arch.)
        (a) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
        (b) Same as {Cella}.
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     5. (Elec.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound
        vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
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     6. (Biol.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which
        the greater part of the various tissues and organs of
        animals and plants are composed.
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     Note: All cells have their origin in the primary cell from
           which the organism was developed. In the lowest animal
           and vegetable forms, one single cell constitutes the
           complete individual, such being called unicelluter
           orgamisms. A typical cell is composed of a semifluid
           mass of protoplasm, more or less granular, generally
           containing in its center a nucleus which in turn
           frequently contains one or more nucleoli, the whole
           being surrounded by a thin membrane, the cell wall. In
           some cells, as in those of blood, in the am[oe]ba, and
           in embryonic cells (both vegetable and animal), there
           is no restricting cell wall, while in some of the
           unicelluliar organisms the nucleus is wholly wanting.
           See Illust. of {Bipolar}.
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     {Air cell}. See {Air cell}.
  
     {Cell development} (called also {cell genesis}, {cell
        formation}, and {cytogenesis}), the multiplication, of
        cells by a process of reproduction under the following
        common forms; segmentation or fission, gemmation or
        budding, karyokinesis, and endogenous multiplication. See
        {Segmentation}, {Gemmation}, etc.
  
     {Cell theory}. (Biol.) See {Cellular theory}, under
        {Cellular}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cell \Cell\ (s[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Celled} (s[e^]ld).]
     To place or inclose in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.]
     --Warner.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cell
       n 1: any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
       2: (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all
          organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life
          (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in
          higher plants and animals
       3: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of
          a chemical reaction [syn: {electric cell}]
       4: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a
          larger political movement [syn: {cadre}]
       5: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided
          into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range
          transmitter/receiver [syn: {cellular telephone}, {cellular
          phone}, {cellphone}, {mobile phone}]
       6: small room is which a monk or nun lives [syn: {cubicle}]
       7: a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: {jail cell}, {prison
          cell}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "cell":
     POW camp, Photronic cell, adytum, animal cell, apartment, ashram,
     bastille, bioplast, black hole, booth, borstal,
     borstal institution, box, bridewell, brig, bunch, cabal, cadre,
     camarilla, cavity, cellular tissue, cellule, chamber,
     charmed circle, chromatoplasm, circle, clan, clique, cloister,
     closed circle, coenocyte, compartment, concentration camp,
     condemned cell, corpuscle, coterie, crew, crib, crowd, crypt,
     cubicle, cytoplasm, death cell, death house, death row, den,
     detention camp, ectoplasm, electron-image tube, elite, elite group,
     enclosed space, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell,
     federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, gas phototube, germ cell,
     group, guardhouse, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place,
     hold, hole, hollow, holy of holies, house of correction,
     house of detention, industrial school, ingroup, inner circle,
     internment camp, ivory tower, jail, jailhouse, junta, junto, keep,
     labor camp, lair, lockup, manger, maximum-security prison, mew,
     minimum-security prison, mob, multiplier phototube, oubliette,
     outfit, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement,
     penitentiary, pew, photoconductor cell, photomultiplier tube,
     phototube, photovoltaic cell, plant cell, plasmodium, prison,
     prison camp, prisonhouse, privacy, procaryotic cell, protoplasm,
     recess, reform school, reformatory, reticulum, retreat, ring, room,
     sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place, set, soft phototube,
     somatic cell, sponging house, stall, state prison, stockade,
     syncytium, the hole, tollbooth, training school, trophoplasm,
     vacuum phototube, vault, we-group
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  cell
       
           {ATM}'s term for a {packet}.
       
          (1996-08-21)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.