Cell

Isn’t the English language at times funny? For one word can have meanings too many. For example, take the word ‘cell’. With this single word ‘cell’- what you precisely mean, you can never tell. A cell is the microscopic unit of life in biology or it could be a chemical device to produce electrical energy. It could refer to a place where a prisoner is confined or it could denote an area of a spreadsheet defined. It may mean a very small room in a monastery or a little compartment of a honey comb on a tree. Of late everything seems pell-mell with the word ‘cell’- for its ring-tone has another interesting story to tell. So when you just say ‘cell’ what it means we can hardly tell - unless we know the context or wait till what comes next. 28 June 2010 9: 45 am