a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | (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 |
the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | a room where a prisoner is kept |
coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | any small compartment |
| a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver |
| a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement |