vt to place or inclose in a cell.
2. cell ·noun any small cavity, or hollow place.
3. cell ·noun ·same·as cella.
4. cell ·noun the space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
5. cell ·noun a small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
6. cell ·noun a jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
7. cell ·noun a very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
8. cell ·noun one of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.