Tissue
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /ˈtɪsjuË/
- GenAm IPA: /ˈtɪʃu/
- Rhymes: -ɪsjuË, -ɪʃuË
Origin
From Old French tissu, past participle of tistre, from Latin texere.
Full definition of tissue
Noun
tissue
(plural tissues)- Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 17, The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. ….
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- Drydena robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire
- MiltonIn their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. - A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- (biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
- 1924, ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at:
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
- A. J. Balfourunwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
Verb
- To form tissue of; to interweave.Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.