Cell vs. Battery — What's the Difference?

A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.

(Electricity) A device containing an electric cell or a series of electric cells storing chemical energy that can be converted into electrical energy, usually in the form of direct current.

A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.

A device that stores mechanical or other energy for later use.

(Biology) The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.

The act of beating or pounding.

(Architecture) See web.

(Law) The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact.

The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.

An emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery.

A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.

A set of guns or other heavy artillery, as on a warship.

A single unit that converts radiant energy into electric energy

An army artillery unit, corresponding to a company in the infantry.

A fuel cell.

An array of similar things intended for use together

A geographic area or zone surrounding a transmitter in a cellular telephone system.

An impressive body or group

A cellphone.

(Baseball) A pitcher and catcher considered as a unit.

(Computers) A basic unit of storage in a computer memory that can hold one unit of information, such as a character or word.

(Music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

A storm cell.

A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

A small humble abode, such as a hermit's cave or hut.

(legal) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.

A small religious house dependent on a larger one, such as a priory within an abbey.

(countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.

A box or other unit on a spreadsheet or similar array at the intersection of a column and a row.

An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.

To store in a honeycomb.

An array of similar things.

To live in or share a prison cell.

A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together

A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

(music) A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

(archaic) Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.

Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

The act of battering or beating.

(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.

(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.

The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

The pitcher and catcher together.

(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

A collection of related things intended for use together;

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. Category:en:Higher-dimensional geometry

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;

(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

(architecture) A cella.

(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

A cellular phone.

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

To place or inclose in a cell.

Any small compartment;

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Small room is which a monk or nun lives

A room where a prisoner is kept