Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transparent sheet of celluloid or plastic, used to layer elements of an animated image on top of a background in order to reduce the number of elements that need to be re-created for each frame.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abbreviations of Celsius.
- A simplified spelling of
cell .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
celluloid on which has beendrawn aframe of ananimated film .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Borderlands Concept Art Style Rather Fetching - As part of their ongoing effort to distance their new game from the term cel-shading, Gearbox has released a full screenshot of Borderlands, demonstrating its rather appealing new look.
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Whether one links the word celθi-m with added phrasal conjunctive -m to Celi , an Etruscan month name believed to correlate to our September, or to a noun celu "earth", regardless a verb this is not.
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Whether one links the word celθi-m with added phrasal conjunctive -m to Celi , an Etruscan month name believed to correlate to our September, or to a noun celu "earth", regardless a verb this is not.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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One thing I didn’t realize: These machines come with built-in cellular cards, so they can go online via Cingular’s network as well as via WiFi.
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.
800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009
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The suffix -cel comes from “incel,” and is meant to imply that the person described is a stifled loser.
OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators? Matthew Gault 2022
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