In an animal, a cell that uses up water in its chemical reactyions will have a more concentrated (less dilute) cytoplasm.
This means that water will move into the cell from outside of the cell as the outside would have a higher water concentration (be more dilute).
This works two ways, if a cell has more dilute cytoplasm inside it, then water will move out of the cell by osmosis.
In both of these cases, water balance is restored by osmosis.
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