- cell⇄adj. cell-like.
- cell⇄cell, noun, verb.
- cell⇄expr. cells, the brain or cells of the brain.
Ex. It [the sound] opens all the cells Where Mem'ry slept (William Cowper). - cell⇄noun 1a. a small room in a prison, convent, or monastery.
Ex. The prisoners lived in their cells but ate in a huge dining hall.
b. a small monastery or convent, dependent on a larger religious house.
2. any small, hollow place. - cell⇄polar body orcell
(Biology.) one of the tiny cells that arise by a very unequal meiotic division of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization. - cell⇄v.i. to live in a cell, especially a prison cell.
Ex. A dictionary buff, a devotee of obscure words, he had been intent on improving his companion's grammar ... ever since they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary (Truman Capote).