cell - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

(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

• cell

More generic

• animate thing
• living thing

More specific

• Kupffer's cell
• Leydig cell
• Leydig's cell
• Sertoli cell
• Sertoli's cell
• acaryote
• akaryocyte
• akaryote
• archespore
• archesporium
• arthrospore
• beta cell
• blastema
• blastomere
• daughter cell
• embryonic cell
• fertilized ovum
• fiber
• fibre
• flagellated cell
• formative cell
• gametocyte
• germ cell
• mother cell
• parthenote
• plant cell
• polar body
• recombinant
• reproductive cell
• sex cell
• somatic cell
• vegetative cell
• zygote

Related

• cell membrane
• cell nucleus
• cell organ
• cell organelle
• cytol
• cytomembrane
• cytoplasm
• energid
• karyon
• nucleus
• organelle
• plasma membrane
• protoplast
• vacuole

Related

• being
• organism

Noun

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

Synonyms

• cell
• electric cell

More generic

• electrical device

More specific

• electrolytic cell
• fuel cell
• galvanic cell
• photovoltaic cell
• primary cell
• secondary cell
• solar cell
• storage cell
• voltaic cell

Noun

a room where a prisoner is kept

Synonyms

• cell
• jail cell
• prison cell

More generic

• room

More specific

• bullpen
• cooler
• detention cell
• detention centre
• dungeon
• guardroom
• hold
• keep
• sweatbox
• tank

Related

• cellblock
• ward

Noun

small room in which a monk or nun lives

Synonyms

• cell
• cubicle

More generic

• room

Related

• convent
• monastery

Noun

any small compartment

Synonyms

• cell

More generic

• compartment

Noun

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

Synonyms

• cell
• cellphone
• cellular phone
• cellular telephone
• mobile phone

More generic

• radiophone
• radiotelephone
• wireless telephone

Noun

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

Synonyms

• cadre
• cell

More generic

• political entity
• political unit

More specific

• radical cell
• sleeper cell
• terrorist cell

Related

• political movement

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