different between cell vs merocrine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/
• Homophones: cel, sell

Etymology 1

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Doublet of cella; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?elneh?, from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to cover”).

Noun

cell (plural cells)

1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit. [from 10th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:

     So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, IV:

     For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.

2. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. [from 11th c.]
3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. [from 14th c.]

4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. [from 18th c.]

   Synonym: prison cell

5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. [from 14th c.]
6. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. [from 14th c.]
   • 1858, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, fifth edition, p. 282:

     Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom […].

7. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
8. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. [14th-19th c.]
9. A section or compartment of a larger structure. [from 16th c.]
10. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1810, Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake, II:

      Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell […].

11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. [from 19th c.]

12. (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. [from 19th c.]
    • 1999, Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian, 15 Feb 1999:

      An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.

    • 2011, Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 3:

      In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.

13. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. [from 20th c.]

14. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. [from 20th c.]

15. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
16. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]

17. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode. [from 20th c.]

18. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

19. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
20. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
21. (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
22. (architecture) A cella.
23. (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins

Usage notes

In the sense of an electrical device, "cell" is the technically correct name for a single unit of battery-type power storage, whereas a battery is a device comprising multiple of them, though it is often used for simple cells.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cell.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cell

Derived terms

Related terms

• cellar
• cellular
• cellule

Translations

Verb

cell (third-person singular simple present cells, present participle celling, simple past and past participle celled)

1. (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

Etymology 2

From cell phone, from cellular phone, from cellular + telephone

Noun

cell (plural cells)

1. (US, informal) A cellular phone.

Usage notes

• Widely used attributively.

Translations

Further reading

• cell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cell at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Cell in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of cellulair or borrowed directly from English cell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/
• Hyphenation: cell

Noun

cell m (plural cells, diminutive celltje n)

1. (Suriname, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone.

   Synonyms: (Belgium) gsm, (Netherlands) mobiel

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Clipping of cellulaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/

Noun

cell m (plural cells)

1. (Quebec, colloquial) cellular phone, mobile phone; Abbreviation of téléphone cellulaire..

Synonyms

• portable, téléphone portable, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, mobile

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?el?/

Noun

cell f

1. church

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: cill
• Manx: keeill
• Scottish Gaelic: cill

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

cell c

1. cell; a room in a prison.
2. Cell; a room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
3. Cell; a small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
4. (biology) Cell; the basic unit of a living organism.
5. (biology) Cell; a cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb.
6. (computing) Cell; a minimal unit of a cellular automaton.

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/

Noun

cell f (plural celloedd)

1. cell
2. Often used as the second part of a compound word denoting a place, i.e. llyfrgell (library), literally "llyfr" (book) + "cell".

Mutation

English

Etymology

From mero- (“partial”) +? Ancient Greek ?????? (kr??n?, “to separate”).

Adjective

merocrine (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, biology, histology) Of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells.
   • 1982, Vladimir Evgen?evich Sokolov, Mammal Skin, University of California Press, page 20,

     Merocrine cells have several full secretion cycles — the merocrine secretion cell does not die when it secretes into the lumen of the gland.

   • 2011, S. M. Kisia, Vertebrates: Structures and Functions, page 53,

     Secretions from glands are produced by merocrine, apocrine and holocrine modes of secretion (Fig. 3.4). In merocrine secretion, membrane bound secretory vesicles are formed and accumulate below the free surface of the cell. […] There is no loss of cytoplasm in merocrine secretion.

   • 2013, Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere, 16: Integument, Jo Ann Eurell, Brian L. Frappier (editors), Dellmann's Textbook of Veterinary Histology, 6th Edition, page 338,

     The planum rostrale of pigs has tactile (sinus) hairs distributed over the surface and numerous large merocrine sweat glands.

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands): eccrine (specifically of (certain) sweat glands)

Coordinate terms

• apocrine
• granulocrine
• holocrine

Italian

Adjective

merocrine f

1. feminine plural of merocrino