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# cell

noun (a cell, cells)

«cell» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A cell is the smallest living part of a plant or animal; all living things are made of cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m1)
2. A cell is a small room where a prisoner is kept. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m2)
3. A cell is a battery, a single unit that makes electricity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m3)
4. A cell is one small box in a table or spreadsheet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m4)
5. A cell (cell phone, American) is a mobile phone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m5)
6. A cell can also be a small room where a monk, nun or hermit lives alone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m6)

### In the lessons

In science, cells are tiny and seen with a microscope; plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts, animal cells do not. Your body has trillions of cells: blood cells, skin cells, nerve cells. In electricity, a cell pushes current around a circuit; several cells make a battery. In maths and computing, a table is made of rows, columns and cells. In bees' honeycomb, each hole is a cell. Phrases: blood cells, plant cell, cell wall, prison cell, cell phone, solar cell.

### Examples

- All living things are made of cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x1)
- We looked at onion cells under a microscope. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x2)
- Red blood cells carry oxygen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x3)
- The prisoner sat alone in his cell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x4)
- Add another cell to make the bulb brighter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x5)
- Write the total in the last cell of the table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x6)
- Bees store honey in wax cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x7)
- "But one thing more," said the Wise Woman, going back to her cell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x8)

### Note

Do not confuse cell with "sell" (give for money) — same sound. In science, "battery" is strictly two or more cells together, though people often call one cell a battery. In a table, each cell holds one value.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means a small chamber, either a prison room or a guard room beside a gate in Ezekiel's vision of the Temple.

**Interpretation.** Jeremiah's cell shows the prophet suffering for speaking God's word. Ezekiel's gate-cells are read as part of the visionary Temple plan, whose exact measures the sages saw as holy.

### Examples

- When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Prophets JER.37.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cell/#x1)
- And he measured the gate from the roof of the one cell to the roof of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door. (Prophets EZK.40.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cell/#x2)
- the cells thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof; and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. (Prophets EZK.40.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cell/#x3)

### Note

Do not confuse cell with "sell" (give for money) — same sound. In science, "battery" is strictly two or more cells together, though people often call one cell a battery. In a table, each cell holds one value.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cell.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «cell» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cell/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cell» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cell.html) on Mova free.