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Cheap Definition–adjective | 1. | costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress. |
| 2. | costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. |
| 3. | charging low prices: a very cheap store. |
| 4. | of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship. |
| 5. | embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake. |
| 6. | obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap. |
| 7. | of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation. |
| 8. | stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee. |
–adverb | 9. | at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap. |
—Idioms| 10. | cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price. |
| 11. | on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap. |
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Cell Definition–noun | 1. | a small room, as in a convent or prison. |
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| 2. | any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. |
| 3. | a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party. |
| 4. | Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms. |
| 5. | Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins. |
| 8. | Also called electrolytic cell. Physical Chemistry. a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes. |
| 9. | Aeronautics. the gas container of a balloon. |
| 10. | Ecclesiastical. a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house. |
–verb (used without object) | 12. | to live in a cell: The two prisoners had celled together for three years. |
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Phone Definition–noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), phoned, phon·ing. |
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Battery Definition–noun, plural -ter·ies.
| 2. | any large group or series of related things: a battery of questions. |
| 3. | Military. | a. | two or more pieces of artillery used for combined action. |
| b. | a tactical unit of artillery, usually consisting of six guns together with the artillerymen, equipment, etc., required to operate them. |
| c. | a parapet or fortification equipped with artillery. | |
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| 4. | a group or series of similar articles, machines, parts, etc. |
| 5. | Baseball. the pitcher and catcher considered as a unit. |
| 6. | Navy. | a. | (on a warship) a group of guns having the same caliber or used for the same purpose. |
| b. | the whole armament of a warship. |
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| 7. | Psychology. a series of tests yielding a single total score, used for measuring aptitude, intelligence, personality, etc. |
| 8. | the act of beating or battering. |
| 9. | Law. an unlawful attack upon another person by beating or wounding, or by touching in an offensive manner. |
| 10. | an instrument used in battering. |
| 11. | Also, batterie. Music. the instruments comprising the percussion section of an orchestra. |
| 12. | any imposing group of persons or things acting or directed in unison: a battery of experts. |
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