Pen vs Cell - What's the difference?
pen | cell |
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
(baseball) The bullpen.
To enclose in a pen.
* Milton
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
(figurative) A writer, or his style.
* Fuller
A light pen.
(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
(poetic) A wing.
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
* 1858 , (Asa Gray), Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany , fifth edition, p. 282:
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch.XVI:
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
*, II.12:
* 1810 , (Walter Scott), Lady of the Lake , II:
A room in a prison for one or more inmates.
A device which stores electrical]] power; used either singly or together in [[battery, batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
* 1999 , Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian , 15 Feb 1999:
* 2011 , Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 3:
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in .
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(architecture) A cella.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
As a symbol pen
is peruvian nuevo sol.As a noun cell is
a single-room dwelling for a hermit or cell can be (us|informal) a cellular phone.As a verb cell is
to place or enclose in a cell.pen
English
(wikipedia pen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced byNoun
(en noun)- There are two steers in the third pen .
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- Two righties are up in the pen .
Verb
- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (Modern English (m)); note the /p/ ? /f/ Germanic sound change. See feather and for more.Noun
(en noun)- He took notes with a pen .
- He has a sharp pen .
- those learned pens
- And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd, / Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, / With which whenas him list the ayre to beat
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* ball pen * ball-point pen * border pen * bull pen * cartridge pen * felt-tip pen * fountain pen * goose pen * lettering pen * pen cancellation * pen feather * pen-mate * penmanship * pen name * pen pal * pen-pusher * poison pen * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
(penn)Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Etymology 4
Shortned form of penaltyReferences
cell
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) , later reinforced by (etyl) cel, (sele), (etyl) cele.Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia cell)- So, taking them apart into his cell , / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell .
- Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom.
- From cell' to ' cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
- Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell .
- Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell .
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells .
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells .
- An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
- In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
- There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
- The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
- Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells .
- I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.