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cell is a noun:

  1. A room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
    "Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell."
  2. A room in a prison for containing inmates.
    "The combatants spent the night in separate cells."
  3. A component of an electrical battery.
    "This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.# A small group of people forming part of a larger organization."
  4. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
    "There is a powerful storm cell headed our way."
  5. The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.
    "There is a virtual zoo of single cell organisms living in your mouth."
  6. An cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.
    "The bee filled the cell with honey."
  7. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
    "The upper right cell always starts with the color green."
  8. A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
    "Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells."
  9. A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
    "I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower."
  10. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
  11. A cellular phone.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is cell?

As detailed above, 'cell' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
  2. Noun usage: The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
  3. Noun usage: This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.# A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
  4. Noun usage: Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
  5. Noun usage: There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
  6. Noun usage: There is a virtual zoo of single cell organisms living in your mouth.
  7. Noun usage: The bee filled the cell with honey.
  8. Noun usage: The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
  9. Noun usage: Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
  10. Noun usage: I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of cell are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of cell, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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