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Noun

  1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
  2. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
  3. Absorbent paper as material.
  4. :Irish S****** is one of world's largest tissue producers.
  5. A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
  6. * 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: XHTML::MediaWiki::Parser=HASH(0x891cba4). Book 1, Part 10.
  7. *: But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of them should;


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser,
tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]
1. A woven fabric.
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2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver
threads, or embossed with figures.
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A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden.
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In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. --Milton.
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3. (Biol.) 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.
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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.
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4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
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Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism
wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious
emotion. --A. J.
Balfour.
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Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for
protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate
articles, etc.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tissuing.]
To form tissue of; to interweave.
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Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon.
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WordNet tissue
n 1: a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells
having a similar structure and function
2: a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: tissue paper]
v : create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric,
such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave]
Moby Dictionary
accumulation , all that lives , anatomy , arabesque , architectonics ,
architecture , arrangement , basketry , basketwork , biosphere , biota ,
braiding , brawn , build , building , cancellation , chain , cloth ,
combination , composition , concatenation , conformation ,
conglomeration , constitution , construction , creation ,
cross-hatching , crossing-out , drapery , ecosphere , enlacement ,
entwinement , entwining , etoffe , fabric , fabrication , fashion ,
fashioning , felt , fiber , filigree , flesh , flora and fauna , forging ,
form , format , formation , frame , fret , fretwork , getup , goods ,
grate , grating , grid , gridiron , grille , grillwork , hachure ,
hatching , interknitting , interlacement , interlacery , interlacing ,
intertexture , interthreading , intertieing , intertwinement ,
intertwining , intertwisting , interweavement , interweaving ,
knitting , lace , lacery , lacework , lacing , lattice , latticework ,
living matter , living nature , make , makeup , making , manufacture ,
mass , material , mesh , meshes , meshwork , mold , molding , napery , net ,
netting , network , noosphere , organic matter , organic nature ,
organic structure , organism , organization , organized matter , pack ,
pattern , patterning , physique , pile , plaiting , plan , plasm ,
plexure , plexus , production , raddle , rag , reticle , reticulation ,
reticule , reticulum , riddle , screen , screening , series , setup ,
shape , shaping , sieve , silk , structure , structuring , stuff ,
tectonics , textile , textile fabric , texture , tissu , tracery ,
trellis , trelliswork , twining , twisting , warp and woof , warpage ,
wattle , weave , weaving , web , webbing , webwork , weft , weftage ,
wicker , wickerwork , woof , wool , wreathing


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