cell

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cell [cell cells] BrE [sel] NAmE [sel] noun
1. a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station
see also ↑padded cell
2. a small room without much furniture in which a ↑monk or ↑nun lives
3. the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells
•blood cells
•the nucleus of a cell
see also ↑stem cell
4. each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a ↑honeycomb
5. a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light
•a photoelectric cell
6. a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly
•a terrorist cell
7. one of the small squares in a ↑spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data
8. (informal, especially NAmE) = ↑cell phone

Word Origin:
Old English, from Old French celle or Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.

Example Bank:
•Cells divide and form new cells.
•red and white blood cells
•the proliferation of cells in leukaemia

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  jail cell, prison cell, cubicle, cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone, cadre, electric cell