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cell
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- pronunciation:
- sel
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Homophone Note, Word History, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a tiny unit of plant or animal life, having a nucleus and surrounded by a very thin membrane.
Living things are made of cells.
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| definition 2: |
a very small room for a prisoner, nun, or monk.
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| definition 3: |
any small, hollow space within a larger group of hollow spaces.
Bees build a honeycomb with many cells. |
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a device that makes electricity by chemical means.
A car battery has several cells.- similar words:
- battery
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| related words: |
booth, cabin, cage, compartment |
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The words cell and sell sound alike but have different meanings.
Cell comes from celare, a Latin word that means "to hide." By the 1300s, "cell" meant "small monastery" or "small room." In the late 1300s, it was used for the compartments that the brain was thought to be separated into. The current use of the word "cell" in biology first occurred in 1845.
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grows in cell |
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virus |
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includes the study of cells |
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biology |
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person who studies cells |
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scientist |
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some examples of cells |
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corpuscle, egg, red blood cell, sperm, T cell, white blood cell |
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some means for categorizing cells |
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function, structure |
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some parts of cells |
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chromosome, cytoplasm, membrane, nucleus, protoplasm |
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some things composed of cells |
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blood, gland, lymph, organ, plasma, pus, tissue |
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some things composed of only one cell |
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amoeba, bacteria, paramecium, protozoan |
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some things found in cells |
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carbohydrate, carbon, DNA, enzyme, fat, gene, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, protein, vitamin, water |
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some things that produce cells |
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bone marrow, spleen |
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some tools for studying cells |
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microscope, slide |
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