noun

• (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
• (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
  "Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…]."
• (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
• (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
  "How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept."

verb

• (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
  "Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found"

noun

• (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.