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cells

/sel/US // sɛl //UK // (sɛl) //

细胞,牢房,囚室,囚房

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small room, as in a convent or prison.
    • : any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole.
    • : a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party.
    • : Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
    • : Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins.
    • : Botany. locule.
    • : Electricity. Also called battery, electric cell, electrochemical cell, galvanic cell, voltaic cell. a device that generates electrical energy from chemical energy, usually consisting of two different conducting substances placed in an electrolyte.Compare dry cell. solar cell.
    • : Also called electrolytic cell. Physical Chemistry. a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes.
    • : Aeronautics. the gas container of a balloon.
    • : Ecclesiastical. a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house.
    • : Telecommunications. one of the distinct geographical areas covered by a radio transmitter in a cellular phone system.cell phone.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to live in a cell: The two prisoners had celled together for three years.

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Examples

  • There are millions of stories that end with black boys in jail cells.

  • Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.

  • The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.

  • In fact, four of 20 cells at Cobalt were found to have bars across the cell to allow this.

  • African-Americans, wrote Mailer, “known down to the cells of [their] existence that life is war, nothing but war.”

  • Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

  • Renal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.

  • (a) Epithelial casts contain epithelial cells from the renal tubules.

  • They are cells which have been highly differentiated for the purpose of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.

  • Yeast-cells are smooth, colorless, highly refractive, spheric or ovoid cells.