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# cell

«cell» in Mova's school dictionary: **the smallest living part of a plant or animal; all living…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cell, cells)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cell is the smallest living part of a plant or animal; all living things are made of cells. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m4)

5) A cell (cell phone, American) is a mobile phone. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#m6)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x1)
- We looked at onion cells under a microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x2)
- Red blood cells carry oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x3)
- The prisoner sat alone in his cell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x4)
- Add another cell to make the bulb brighter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x5)
- Write the total in the last cell of the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/#x6)
- Bees store honey in wax cells. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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 the corpora

- [Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/14/)
- [Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/11/)
- [The human body has about 30 trillion cells of many kinds, such as skin, bone, muscle, nerve and blood cells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/6/)
- [Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/9/)
- [Every cell in your body needs oxygen from the air, and your lungs are where the air and the blood meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cell» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cell/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.