tissue

[Tis·sue]

Tissue is part of the body of a living thing that is made of similar cells, like the cardiac tissue of your heart. A tissue is also a soft, thin piece of paper used for wiping noses and tear drops.

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A woven fabric.

Noun
a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function

Noun
a soft thin (usually translucent) paper

Verb
create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles"


n.
A woven fabric.

n.
A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

n.
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.

n.
Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

v. t.
To form tissue of; to interweave.


Tissue

Tis"sue , n. [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.
In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials.
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. &hand; 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.
Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

Tissue

Tis"sue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave.
Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.

A woven fabric.

To form tissue of; to interweave.

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Usage Examples

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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Other Usage Examples

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

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