TISSUE

tissue

(noun) part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function

tissue, tissue paper

(noun) a soft thin (usually translucent) paper

weave, tissue

(verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; “tissue textiles”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

tissue (countable and uncountable, plural tissues)

Thin, woven, gauze-like 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.

(biology) A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.

Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

Verb

tissue (third-person singular simple present tissues, present participle tissuing, simple past and past participle tissued)

To form tissue of; to interweave.

Anagrams

• Eustis, suites

Source: Wiktionary

Tis"sue, n. Etym: [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p.p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]

1. A woven fabric.

2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

3. (Biol.)

Definition: One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.

4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

Tis"sue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.]

Definition: To form tissue of; to interweave. Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition