Cell: Definition and part of speech

Cell

n. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
n. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
n. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
n. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
n. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
n. Same as Cella.
n. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Ceil
v. t. The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
v. t. The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

v. t. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
v. t. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.

n. A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

n. A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; — called also greater celandine and swallowwort.