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Honeycomb vs Cellular - What's the difference?

honeycomb | cellular |

As nouns the difference between honeycomb and cellular

is that honeycomb is a structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter while cellular is a cellular phone (mobile phone).

As a verb honeycomb

is to riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.

As an adjective cellular is

of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.

honeycomb

English

(wikipedia honeycomb)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.
  • Any structure resembling a honeycomb.
    • The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.
  • * 1797 Adams, John, (Letter from John Adams to Uriah Forrest, June 20, 1797), compiled in Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia , at http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_(Contemporary)
    • [there is in Jefferson]...evidence of a mind soured, yet seeking for popularity, and eaten to a honeycomb with ambition....
  • (construction) voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.
  • (aviation) Manufactured material used manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.
  • (solar cell) texturing the surface of a cell to increase its surface area and capture more sun. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2009/07/creating-not-overly-disruptive-changes-in-solar-manufacturing?cmpid=WNL-Friday-July17-2009

    • Derived terms

    * honeycomb moth * honeycomb stomach

    References

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.
    • Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.

    See also

    * favaginous * beeswax

    cellular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.}}

    Derived terms

    * microcellular

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).

    • Hypernyms

    * See also

    See also

    * cell phone