Cell and Piece

Cell

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

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

Nearby Words: cellular, cellphone, celled

Piece noun - A broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete.

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Cell and piece are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cell" instead a noun "Piece".

Nearby Words: pieced, piecework, piecing

old	old cell	old piece
full	full cell	full piece
nice	nice cell	nice piece
special	special cell	special piece
Other adjectives: particular, similar, certain, solid, original, single, small, powerful, actual, entire, real, large, little, tiny, dark, new, unique, next, different, giant.

Blocks are double-sized, but piece movement isn't scaled up to accomodate the increased block size—that is, while all blocks are two cells wide, you still move pieces one cell at a time.

Source: Video Game / Tetris: The Grand Master
For a simple example, take the wallkicks from Tetris: The Grand Master: If you try to rotate a piece, but that rotation is blocked by a wall or a block, the game will attempt to shift the piece one cell to the right and see if it will fit.

Source: Anti-Frustration Features
In Devil Survivor 2, practically every weird piece of technology or magitech is controlled by a character whipping out their cell phone.

Source: Handy Remote Control

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