cell

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cell /sel/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable]  1  HBbody 身体 the smallest part of a living thing that can exist independently 细胞blood/brain/nerve cell red blood cells 红细胞 cancer cells 癌细胞 Embryos grow by cell division (=the splitting of cells). 胚胎通过细胞分裂而成长。2  prison 监狱PRISON a small room in a prison or police station where prisoners are kept 〔监狱或警察局里的〕牢房，小囚室 He spent a night in the cells at the local police station. 他在当地警察局的小囚室里过了一晚上。 the walls of his prison cell 他的囚室四壁► see thesaurus at prison3  phone 电话 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 signals 移动电话，手机 SYN British English mobile Call me on my cell if you’re running late. 如果你要迟到的话就打我的手机。4  electric 电的TEE a piece of equipment for producing electricity from chemicals, heat, or light 电池 a car powered by electric fuel cells 以燃料电池为动力的汽车5  secret group 秘密团体GROUP OF PEOPLE a small group of people who are working secretly as part of a larger political organization 〔政治组织的〕秘密活动小组，分部 a terrorist cell 恐怖分子小组6. religious 宗教的 a small room in a monastery or convent where someone sleeps 〔修道士或修女住的〕小房间7  insect/small animal 昆虫/小动物HBI a small space that an insect or other small creature has made to live in or use 〔巢穴中单个的〕巢室 the cells of a honeycomb 蜂巢的蜂房n COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + cell a blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cellNo new brain cells are produced after birth.a human/animal/plant cellthe 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 cellEvery living cell has a nucleus.normal/abnormalThe 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 cellAlready there are many treatments which destroy cancer cells.verbsa cell dividesWhite blood cells divide rapidly.cell + NOUNcell divisionThe 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.

Examples from the Corpus

cell• These antibodies are produced by the B cells in our lymph glands.• alkaline battery cells• red blood cells• cancer cells• Warren planned to find a communist cell and become a member.• He was tortured severely, stripped and manacled to a concrete cell floor.• Methods for dissociating cells are therefore more drastic and not necessarily compatible with long-term viability.• Thyroglobulin secreted by the epithelial cells, makes up 90 percent of the colloid.• Results Deposits of formazan were found in the colonic epithelium, vascular endothelium, and infiltrating mononuclear cells.• Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.• When a surgeon destroys overactive cells in the globus pallidum, he restores balance to the system, said Grossman.• The prison cells have doors of heavy steel.• Barrett's oesophagus represents a metaplastic transformation of the normal squamous cell epithelium of the lower tubular oesophagus into columnar epithelium.• You find that cells in adjacent parts of the visual cortex are activated by stimulation in adjacent parts of the visual field.blood/brain/nerve cell• Like cocaine and amphetamine, alcohol directly stimulates certain brain cells.• Research has suggested that for blood cells, this lipid asymmetry may help to maintain the delicate balance between haemostasis and thrombosis.• Now he could no more excise it from his brain cells than he could sever his past from his future.• As the cells proceed from the stem cell to the various mature blood cell types they divide many times.• Healthy proteins, which have not met up with prions, reside quietly in the membranes of nerve cells in the brain.• The red blood cell is finally a small bag containing haemoglobin molecules for transporting oxygen.• They can manufacture a whole host of body parts, from neurons to muscles to blood cells.• Specifically, the protein is crucial for normal chemical functioning at synapses, the junctions where brain cells meet and exchange signals.prison cell• It had only one room, and one window, which was heavily barred, like a prison cell.• It wasn't like a prison cell, it-was like a maid's room, Eve told herself firmly.• The cell where he was held was, like a prison cell in a spaghetti western, built of mud.• Nadia's winning work in her age-group showed a prison cell with doors thrown open, depicting freedom.• Kaczynski was scheduled to begin seven days of mental tests Saturday in his Dublin prison cell.• More than a dozen activists have locked themselves inside a mock prison cell they put up outside the federal Interior Ministry here.• They are part of a nationwide operation which has cost millions of pounds after the disturbances which destroyed hundreds of prison cells.• They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now.From Longman Business Dictionarycellcell /sel/ noun [countable usually singular] TELECOMMUNICATIONSa cell phoneOrigin cell (1100-1200) Old French celle, from Latin cella “small room”

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cell S3 W2 /sel/ noun [countable]1.  BODY the smallest part of a living thing that can exist independently
    blood/brain/nerve cell
    red blood cells
    cancer cells
    Embryos grow by cell division (=the splitting of cells).
2.
   PRISON .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
3.  PHONE 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 signals
   SYN  mobile British English:
    Call me on my cell if you’re running late.
4.  ELECTRIC a piece of equipment for producing electricity from chemicals, heat, or light:
    a car powered by electric fuel cells
5.  SECRET GROUP a small group of people who are working secretly as part of a larger political organization:
    a terrorist cell
6.  RELIGIOUS a small room in a monastery or convent where someone sleeps
7.  INSECT/SMALL ANIMAL a small space that an insect or other small creature has made to live in or use:
    the cells of a honeycomb
     

COLLOCATIONS

■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + cell
   ▪ a blood/nerve/brain/muscle etc cell No new brain cells are produced after birth.
   ▪ a human/animal/plant cell the structure of plant cells
   ▪ a 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.
■ verbs
   ▪ a cell divides White blood cells divide rapidly.
■ cell + NOUN
   ▪ cell 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.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ prison a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: He was sentenced to five years in prison. | Wandsworth Prison
   ▪ jail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887. | He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail. | 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes. | The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing. | Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.
   ▪ gaol /dʒeɪl/ British English another way of spelling jail: He spent the night in gaol.
   ▪ penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/ American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: the Ohio State Penitentiary | The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater. | the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
   ▪ correctional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.
   ▪ detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life. | a juvenile detention center | Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport
   ▪ open prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.
   ▪ cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: a prison cell | Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.

🔑 cellBrE /sel/ 🔊NAmE /sel/ 🔊 noun🔑 a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station 单间牢房；牢房  ➡  see also padded cell

cell, death row, discharge, justice, parole, prison, probation, remission, sentence, warder

a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun lives （修道士或修女住的）小房间🔑 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

biology, biotechnology, breed, cell, chromosome, DNA, gene, mutation, organism, protein

each 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）a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light 电池◆a photoelectric cell光电池a 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one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data （计算机电子表格的）单元格(informal, especially NAmE) = cell phone