The flashcard defines "cell" with multiple meanings including the basic unit of life, a prison room, a monk's or nun's room, a small political group, an electricity-producing device, a spreadsheet unit, and informally, a mobile phone. It provides pronunciation and examples for biological cells, prison cells, and political groups.
The flashcard defines "cell" with multiple meanings: the basic unit of living organisms, a prison room, a small room for monks/nuns, a small group in a larger organization, a device producing electricity, a spreadsheet unit, and informally, a mobile phone. It includes pronunciation and examples for biological cells, prison cells, and political groups.
[N-COUNT 可数名词]细胞 A cell is the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.
Those cells divide and give many other different types of cells.
那些细胞分裂，产生出许多不同种类的细胞。
...blood cells...
血细胞
Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.
肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]单人牢房；(修道院的)单人小室 A cell is a small room in which a prisoner is locked. A cell is also a small room in which a monk or nun lives.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](大型组织中的)基层组织 You can refer to a small group of people within a larger organization as a cell .
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...Communist Party cells.
共产党的基层组织
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cell★/sel; NAmEsel/noun1★a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station 单间牢房；牢房☞see also
padded cell
2a small room without much furniture in which a monkor nunlives （修道士或修女住的）小房间3★the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells.细胞◆blood cells血细胞◆the nucleus of a cell细胞核☞see also
stem cell
4each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a honeycomb（大结构中的）小隔室（如蜂房巢室）5a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light 电池◆a photoelectric cell光电池6a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly （尤指秘密的）政治小组，基层组织◆a terrorist cell恐怖分子小组7one of the small squares in a spreadsheetcomputer program in which you enter a single piece of data （计算机电子表格的）单元格8( informal) ( especially NAmE) =
cell phone
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cellcell /sel/ ●●●S3W2 noun [countable]
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1cell (2)body the smallest part of a living thing that can exist independentlyblood/brain/nerve cell red blood cells cancer cells Embryos grow by cell division (=the splitting of cells).2prison a small room in a prison or police station where prisoners are kept: He spent a night in the cells at the local police station. the walls of his prison cell► see thesaurus at
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3phone American English a cellular phone; a telephone that you can carry around with you, that works by using a network of radio stations to pass on signalsSYN mobile British English: Call me on my cell if you’re running late.4electric a piece of equipment for producing electricity from chemicals, heat, or light: a car powered by electric fuel cells5secret group a small group of people who are working secretly as part of a larger political organization: a terrorist cell6religious a small room in a monastery or convent where someone sleeps7insect/small animal a small space that an insect or other small creature has made to live in or use: the cells of a honeycombCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + cella blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cell· No new brain cells are produced after birth.a human/animal/plant cell· the structure of plant cellsa red cell (=the most common type of blood cell)· The red cells carry the oxygen.a white cell (=a type of blood cell that defends your body against disease)· In leukaemia there is an abnormal and excessive formation of white cells.a living/dead cell· Every living cell has a nucleus.normal/abnormal· The test enables doctors to detect abnormal cells.a stem cell (=one that divides and repairs the body, and may be used in medical treatment)· Stem cells may make life-saving treatment possible.a cancer cell· Already there are many treatments which destroy cancer cells.verbsa cell divides· White blood cells divide rapidly.cell + NOUNcell division· The embryo grows by cell division.a cell count (=the number of cells in a particular amount of blood)· A healthy person' s red cell count is close to 1, 000.