cell
/sɛl/ noun B1- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- 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 room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. · The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
Plural cells
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Let him follow me; I will take him to his cell.”
The day passed thus; he scarcely tasted food, but walked round and round the cell like a wild beast in its cage.
On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well done.
Dantès in his cell heard the noise of preparation,—sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible to any but the ear of a prisoner, who could hear the splash of the drop of water that every hour fell from the roof of his dungeon.
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