Synonyms for cell
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1. cellnoun

   any small compartment

   "the cells of a honeycomb"

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, cubicle, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

2. cellnoun

   (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, cubicle, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

3. cell, electric cellnoun

   a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, cubicle, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

4. cell, cadrenoun

   a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, cubicle, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

5. cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phonenoun

   a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cubicle, cellular telephone, mobile phone, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

6. cell, cubiclenoun

   small room in which a monk or nun lives

   Synonyms:
   carrell, electric cell, stall, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, booth, cubicle, carrel, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, kiosk, jail cell

7. cell, jail cell, prison cellnoun

   a room where a prisoner is kept

   Synonyms:
   electric cell, cadre, cellular telephone, mobile phone, cubicle, prison cell, cellular phone, cellphone, jail cell

Matched Categories

1. • Compartment
   • Radiotelephone

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. textbox

   an enclosed space in the shape of a rectangle stacked into rows and columns to build a grid or spread sheet

   a bookkeeper inputs data into their according cells, to complete the balance sheet.

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cellnoun

   Synonyms:
   small room

2. cellnoun

   Synonyms:
   enclosed space, small cavity

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1. List of paraphrases for "cell":

   cellular, cells, airframe, cellphone, unit, mobile, pile, stack, batteries, battery, uiaf, portable, lymphocyte, fiu, bfipu

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1. List of known nicknames for "Cell":

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1. Joseph Fleck:

   Someone yelled ‘fire’ and I look up to see the cabin filling with smoke very fast, a few passengers jumped up to open the overhead bin and saw a backpack on fire due to a battery pack that was charging a cell phone. It had basically exploded.

2. Mason Clark:

   This is coming through most clearly in Mariupol, where they're very intentionally targeting water stations and power supplies and internet towers and cell phone towers and that sort of thing, and a very deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for the defenders to hold out and try and force them to capitulate.

3. Jared Leadbetter:

   These are the first bacteria found to use manganese as their source of fuel, a wonderful aspect of microbes in nature is that they can metabolize seemingly unlikely materials, like metals, yielding energy useful to the cell.

4. Ollie Webb:

   It is vital that we raise as much awareness as possible and recruit more people to the stem cell register to help thousands of other people in our situation.

5. Katherine Kedzierska:

   We showed that even though COVID-19 is caused by a new virus, in an otherwise healthy person, a robust immune response across different cell types was associated with clinical recovery, similar to what we see in influenza.