Cell and Desk

Cell

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

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

Nearby Words: cellular, cellphone, celled

Desk noun - A large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization.

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Cell and desk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cell" instead a noun "Desk".

old	old cell	old desk
full	full cell	full desk
nice	nice cell	nice desk
special	special cell	special desk
Other adjectives: similar, ordinary, complete, certain, solid, alien, single, empty, small, actual, entire, real, large, little, tiny, lonely, main, personal, new, next, giant, locked.

Thus one of the stock tropes of the western is the county jail with its one cell, a desk for the sheriff and, across the room, a smaller desk for his deputy.

Source: The Sheriff
Fun with Flushing: A nameless character leaves his cell phone on his desk while he's out of his cubicle.

Source: Comic Strip / Dilbert
On finding him, Morpheus sends a cell phone by courier to Thomas Anderson at his desk as a literal Call to Adventure.

Source: Herald

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