Meaning

24 senses
  1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

  2. (historical)A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

    a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

  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.

    Zelle, Mönchszelle

    ке́льяkélʹja

    ке́ліяkélija

    small room in which a monk or nun lives

  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.

    any small compartment

  6. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

  7. The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

  8. A section or compartment of a larger structure.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

    Zelle

    кле́ткаklétka, ячейкаjačejka

    кліти́наklitýna, комі́ркаkomírka

  11. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

    There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

  12. 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.

Examples

524 sentences
  1. I'm calling from a cell phone.

    Я телефоную з мобілки.

    ruЯ звоню с сотового.

    deIch rufe von meinem Mobiltelefon aus an.

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  2. Tom doesn't have a cell phone.

    Том не має мобільного телефону.

    ruУ Тома нет мобильного телефона.

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  3. Do you have a cell phone?

    У вас є мобільний телефон?

    ruУ тебя есть мобильник?

    deHast du ein Handy?

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  4. I need to charge my cell phone.

    Мені потрібно зарядити мобільний телефон.

    ruМне нужно зарядить мой телефон.

    deIch muss mein Mobiltelefon aufladen.

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  5. Tom said he was calling from his cell phone.

    Том сказав, що телефонує з мобільного.

    ruТом сказал, что звонит со своего мобильного.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 5
room in a prison for containing inmates:
biological cavity:
room in a monastery for sleeping one person:
basic unit of a living organism:
small group of people forming part of a larger organization:
Русский
By meaning 6
component of an electrical battery:
room in a prison for containing inmates:
biological cavity:
room in a monastery for sleeping one person:
basic unit of a living organism:
informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
component of an electrical battery:
room in a prison for containing inmates:
room in a monastery for sleeping one person:
informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone:

Origin

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), fro

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.

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

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Forms

plural: cells
Singularcell
Pluralcells

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

229 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • cell phone
  • his cell phone
  • your cell phone
  • my cell phone
  • a cell phone
  • in his cell
  • have a cell

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cell — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto