tissue.
Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.
Meaning & usage
Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.
A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
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.
A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to perform a specific job.
Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
The scratch sheet or racing form.
A cigarette paper.
Anything that is light, thin, and delicate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
To form tissue of; to interweave.
To have the contents of an injection or intravenous drip leak into the tissue as a result of a ruptured or punctured vein.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
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