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 →

2) A cell is a small room where a prisoner is kept. tree →

3) A cell is a battery, a single unit that makes electricity. tree →

4) A cell is one small box in a table or spreadsheet. tree →

5) A cell (cell phone, American) is a mobile phone. tree →

6) A cell can also be a small room where a monk, nun or hermit lives alone. tree →

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 →
• We looked at onion cells under a microscope. tree →
• Red blood cells carry oxygen. tree →
• The prisoner sat alone in his cell. tree →
• Add another cell to make the bulb brighter. tree →
• Write the total in the last cell of the table. tree →
• Bees store honey in wax cells. tree →
• "But one thing more," said the Wise Woman, going back to her cell. tree →

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.
• Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.
• The human body has about 30 trillion cells of many kinds, such as skin, bone, muscle, nerve and blood cells.
• Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.
• Every cell in your body needs oxygen from the air, and your lungs are where the air and the blood meet.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cell» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.