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How to use cell in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Cell means a single-room dwelling for a hermit. Example: “Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”

Examples of cell by meaning

nounA small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

  • Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
  • A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315

nounA room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

  • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

nounA device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

  • This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

nounThe basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is...

  • An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.1999 February 15, Paul Brown, Dave King, The Guardian
  • In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 3

nounA small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

  • There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

nounThe minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

  • The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
  • Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
  • I've seen this space colloquially referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

nounA small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

  • Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
  • STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Special Tasks Group Codex entry

nounA short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

  • Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

More sentences with cell

  • The youth of today have never known what life is like without a cell phone.From the entry today
  • You just tried to start your car with your cell phone. Hello?From the entry hello
  • The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.From the entry plate
  • The prisoner knocked out a message on the wall for the prisoner in the adjoining cell.From the entry knock out
  • I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.From the entry culture
  • Your cell phone company can put a trace on your line.From the entry trace
  • Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.From the entry exchange
  • The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.From the entry term
  • Under electron microscopy, a few viruses were seen floating near the cells.From the entry virus
  • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.From the entry bud
  • Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.From the entry prisoner
  • Regulation materials of cells vary greatly: even water can be an important regulome entity.From the entry regulome
  • Janus green B is a dye used widely in histology to stain cells for microscopic examination.From the entry Janus
  • A lichen is a fungus with symbiotic algae among its cells.From the entry symbiotic
  • Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes.From the entry haploid
  • Those two morons only have one brain cell to share between them.From the entry brain cell
  • In zebrafish, the adaxial cells are precursors to the embryonic slow muscle fibers.From the entry adaxial
  • In first period, we're going over the basics of cell biology.From the entry go over
  • On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.From the entry replicate
  • In certain conditions, immune cells may infiltrate into the cerebrospinal fluid.From the entry infiltrate
  • He left his cell phone behind and enjoyed a carefree summer day at the beach.From the entry carefree
  • In the movies spies are always talking over cell phones with built-in scramblers.From the entry scrambler
  • The majority of the Legionella cells in water are believed to live intracellularly as protozoan parasites.From the entry intracellularly
  • The cocultures of HeLa cells and lymphocytes were incubated for 24 hours.From the entry coculture
  • This is due to the detection of sublethally damaged cells, which are still viable but not culturable.From the entry sublethally
  • The tissue sample was analyzed ex situ to prevent contamination from surrounding cells.From the entry ex situ
  • It takes only minutes, after entry into a cell, for a virus particle to uncoat.From the entry uncoat

Meaning of cell

  1. noun A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
  2. noun A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
  3. noun A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

Full definition of cell

Questions about cell in a sentence

How do you use cell in a sentence?
Cell is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”
What is a short sentence with cell?
“Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.”
What does cell mean?
Cell means a single-room dwelling for a hermit.

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