a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
lacking cells
a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home
(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
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 room where a prisoner is kept
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
