Air cell
() A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. |
Air cell
() A receptacle of air in various parts of the system |
Basset horn
(a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
Bass horn
() A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. |
Buck's-horn
(n.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus) |
Bugle horn
() A bugle. |
Bugle horn
() A drinking vessel made of horn. |
Cell
(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent |
Cell
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. |
Cell
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place. |
Cell
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. |
Cell
(n.) Same as Cella. |
Cell
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. |
Cell
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. |
Cell
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell. |
Gems-horn
(n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes. |
Horn
(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed. |
Horn
(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. |
Horn
(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form |
Horn
(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). |
Horn
(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn |
Horn
(n.) A wind instrument of music |
Horn
(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. |
Horn
(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. |
Horn
(n.) A vessel made of a horn |
Horn
(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil. |
Horn
(n.) The high pommel of a saddle |
Horn
(n.) The Ionic volute. |
Horn
(n.) The outer end of a crosstree |
Horn
(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. |
Horn
(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. |
Horn
(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent |
Horn
(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. |
Horn
(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime |
Horn
(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. |
Horn
(n.) An emblem of a cuckold |
Horn
(v. t.) To furnish with horns |
Horn
(v. t.) To cause to wear horns |
Horn-mad
(a.) Quite mad |
Morsing horn
() A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. |
Purkinje's cells
() Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum. |
Shoeing-horn
(n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe. |
Shoeing-horn
(n.) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated |
Shoeing-horn
(n.) Anything which draws on or allures |
Slug-horn
(a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan. |
Stag-horn coral
() Alt. of Stag-horn fern |
Stag-horn fern
() See under Stag. |
Water cell
() A cell containing water |
| cell | (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| cell-mediated immune response | an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells |
| horn | one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates |
| horn | any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn |
| flame cell | organ of excretion in flatworms |
| flagellated cell | any cell or oneelled organism equipped with a flagellum |
choanocyte
collar cell | any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum, they maintain a flow of water through the body |
staghorn coral
stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
horn fly
Haematobia irritans | small black European fly introduced into North America, sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn |
forest goat
spindle horn
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
| air horn | air intake of a carburetor |
| air horn | a pneumatic horn |
automobile horn
car horn
motor horn
horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
baritone
baritone horn | the second lowest brass wind instrument |
| basset horn | a tenor clarinet, pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet |
bass horn
sousaphone
tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
cell
electric cell | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
cell jail cell
prison cell | a room where a prisoner is kept |
| cell cubicle | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
| cell | any small compartment, the cells of a honeycomb |
cellular telephone
cellular phone
cellphone
cell mobile phone | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own shortange transmitter
receiver |
Clark cell
Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
cornet
horn trumpet
trump | a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone, has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves |
| dry cell | a small Leclanche cell containing no free liquid, the electrolyte is a paste and the negative zinc pole forms the container of the cell, used in flashlights, portable radios, etc. |
| electrolytic cell | a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen) |
English horn
cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
French horn
horn | a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves |
| fuel cell | cell that produces electricity by oxidation of fuel (hydrogen and oxygen or zinc and air), often used in electric cars |
| holding cell | a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial |
| horn | an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound |
| horn saddle horn | a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) |
| horn | a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it |
| horn | a device having the shape of a horn, horns at the ends of a new moon, the hornof an anvil, the cleat had two horns |
| horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
| Kerr cell | optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media, passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel, used as a high-speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam |
| Leclanche cell | voltaic cell that produces approximately . volts |
| mercury cell | a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode and a cathode of mercury oxide and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide |
photoelectric cell
photoconductive cell
photocell
electric eye
magic eye | a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations |
| post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
powder horn
powder flask | container for carrying gunpowder, made of the hollow horn of an animal |
| selenium cell | a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium |
solar cell
photovoltaic cell | a cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy |
| standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
storage cell
secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
voltaic cell
galvanic cell
primary cell | an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy, cannot be recharged |
Weston cell
cadmium cell | a standard voltaic cell (trademark Weston) |
| wet cell | a primary voltaic cell having a liquid electrolyte |
| skin cell | any of the cells making up the skin |