word-vault/dist/data/cards/ce/cell.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "cell",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "red and white **blood cells**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "brain/nerve/cancer cells"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the nucleus of a cell"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cells divide and form new cells."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Biology", "Body"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dead", "living", "healthy"],
                "verb + cell": ["create", "form", "grow"],
                "cell + verb": ["divide", "develop", "form"],
                "cell + noun": ["division", "growth", "proliferation"],
                "phrases": ["the nucleus of a cell"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station",
            "sensetop": "in a cell",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He spent a night in a **prison cell**.",
                    "contextForm": "in a cell"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["monk’s", "nun’s", "jail"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the cell"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun lives",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["monk’s", "nun’s", "jail"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the cell"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a honeycomb",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a photoelectric cell"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a terrorist cell"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "a phone that does not have wires and works by radio, and that you can carry with you and use anywhere",
            "labels": "(especially North American English, informal)(both especially North American English)British English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Call me on my cell."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sel/",
                "audio": "ce/cell/cell__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sel/",
                "audio": "ce/cell/cell__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English, from Old French celle or Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’."
}