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cel en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /sɛl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clipping of celluloid.

Meanings

  1. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
    • After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation. 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times:

Forms

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cels Number=Plur lexicographic
cell alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

cel shading · cel-shaded

wikipedia: cel

Source: en.wiktionary, “cel” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

cel en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /sɛl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clipping of celibate.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of celibacy or celibate.
    alt of celibacy
    alt of celibate

Forms

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cels Number=Plur lexicographic
cell alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

heightcel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · volcel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · hicel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · truecel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · noncel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · incel (terms derived using cel as suffix) · nearcel (terms derived using cel as suffix)

Synonyms

truecel · celibate · trucel

wikipedia: cel