Tissue

/ˈtɪs.juː/ · noun

Meaning

Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric..

Definitions by Sense

1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
2. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
3. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
4. Absorbent paper as material.
5. (biology) A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
6. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
7. (horse racing, slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.
8. To form tissue of; to interweave.

Example Sentences

Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.

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 Robe of Tiſſue, ſtiff with golden Wire; / An upper Veſt, once Hellen’s rich Attire; [...]

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.

Corinius went on the right, wearing a rich cloak of sky-blue tissue over his shining armour.

What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.

a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion

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• tissues
• tissuing
• tissued

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