Cell Sel Small Form Noun Red White Blood

• red and white blood cells
• brain/nerve/cancer cells
• the nucleus of a cell
• cells divide and form new cells.

cell

1. the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells.
• SEE ALSO stem cell
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/stem-cell
• red and white blood cells
• brain/nerve/cancer cells
• the nucleus of a cell
• Cells divide and form new cells.
2. a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station
• SEE ALSO padded cell
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/padded-cell
• He spent a night in a prison cell.
3. a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun lives
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. a phone that does not have wires and works by radio, and that you can carry with you and use anywhere
• Call me on my cell.

Word Origin

• Old English, from Old French celle or Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.