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CELLULE

Definition: CELLULE

CELLULE

Noun

1. A small cell.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Cellule \Cel"lule\, noun. [Latin expression cellula small apartment, diminutive of cella: compare to the French expression cellule. See Cell.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: CELLULE

DomainDefinition

Medicine

In biology, a unit from which living organisms and tissues are built. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CELLULE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Receptacle

Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CELLULE

English words defined with "CELLULE": Cytoblast. (references)
Etymologies containing "CELLULE": Cellular. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CELLULE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (cell, tank, unit).

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Commercial Usage: CELLULE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cellule 18 : lettres inédites de Jacques Fesch guillotiné le 1er octobre 1957 (reference)

  • Cellule d'harmonicité et prolongement analytique complexe (reference)

  • De la cellule rurale à la région : l'Alsace, 1825-1960 : essai de dynamique régionale (reference)

  • Dictionary Encyclopedia De la Cellule (reference)

  • La famille du groupe à la cellule (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CELLULE

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Morocco

In early January, Ahmed Marzouki published "Tazmamart: Cellule 10," about his 18 years as a prisoner at the notorious Tazmamart prison. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: CELLULE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cellule crise de

7

animale cellule

6

cellule végétale

5

cellule staminali

4

cellule fotovoltaiche

4

cellule rendement silicium solaire

3

cellule solaire

2

cellule reclassement

2

cellule peltier

2

cellule procaryotes

2

cellule souche

2

5 cellule peltier

2

cellule

2

cellule veille

2

cellule photovoltaique

2

cellule photoélectrique

2

cellule expertise logistique

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CELLULE

Language Translations for "CELLULE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qelizë (cell, cell block, nucleus). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

килийка, малка клетка. (various references)

   

Danish

  

celle (cell). (various references)

   

French

  

cellule (cell). (various references)

   

German

  

Cellula (cell), Zelle (cell, airframe, booth, box, cubicle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κύτταρο (cell), μικρό κύτταρο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תאון (pigeonhole). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sejtecske. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cellula (cell). (various references)

   

Manx

  

killeen (cell, cubicle), fo-chillag. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellulecay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

célula (cell). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ячейка (alveolus, cell, nucleus, partition), клетка (cage, casing, cell, hutch, mew), клеточка (cell). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ćelija (cell). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

célula (cell), término de célula. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

liten cell. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hücrecik, gözecik. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

секція крила, чарунка (cell), чашечка (calyx, cell, chalice), клітинка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CELLULE

Derivations

Words beginning with "CELLULE": cellules. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CELLULE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cellul, celluler, celluli, cellulum, Celluplex, celuler, celuller, celutel, Ellul. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CELLULE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-l-l-u"

-3 letters: cell, clue, cull, luce, lull.

-4 letters: cee, cel, cue, ecu, eel, ell, lee, leu.

-5 letters: el.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-l-l-u"
 

+1 letter: cellules.

 

+2 letters: cellulase, cellulite, cellulose.

 

+3 letters: cellulases, cellulites, celluloses, columellae, valleculae.

 

+4 letters: multicelled.

 

+5 letters: cellulitises, intellectual, neglectfully.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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