Cell and Defence

Cell

Cell noun - An area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall.

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Defence and cell are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defence" instead a noun "Cell".

Nearby Words: cellular, cellphone, celled

Defence noun - The act of defending someone or something against attack or injury.

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Cell and defence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cell" instead a noun "Defence".

special	special cell	special defence
normal	normal cell	normal defence
powerful	powerful cell	powerful defence
actual	actual cell	actual defence
Other adjectives: entire, real, main, personal, new.

They actually aren't, they have crumple zones to absorb as much of the impact as possible while keeping the passenger cell intact - a type of sacrificial defence.

Source: Not the Fall That Kills You
Establishing Character Moment: Vetinari in the cell, Vimes' rant about the law to Lupine Wonse (or perhaps his earlier defence of Lady Sybil using one of her own swamp dragons as a handgun).

Source: Discworld / Guards! Guards!
In Caprica, Peter Wingfield played a character named Gara Singh, who was simultaneously the head of the Caprica civil defence organisation and the leader of the monotheist terrorist cell on Caprica who he was meant to be catching.

Source: Actor Allusion / Live-Action TV

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