tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪs.juː/
ipa: /ˈtɪʃ.u/
ipa: /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪsjuː
rhymes: -ɪʃuː
Forms: form: tissues
Etymology: From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:
text: 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.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
examples: text: A Robe of Tiſſue, ſtiff with golden Wire; / An upper Veſt, once Hellen’s rich Attire; [...]
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 228, lines 915–916:
text: In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Corinius went on the right, wearing a rich cloak of sky-blue tissue over his shining armour.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
glosses: A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
glosses: Absorbent paper as material.
examples: text: What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.
ref: 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
examples: text: a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
text: unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
ref: 1888, A. J. Balfour, The Religion of Humanity:
glosses: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
examples: text: Pricing the first show is a matter of the bookmaker's individual judgment, relying upon advice from all quarters, particularly the tissue; but very soon in the betting exchanges it becomes clear that the sole criterion for the fixing of a horse's price is demand.
ref: 2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The scratch sheet or racing form.
Derived terms: adipose tissue
antitissue
bathroom tissue
biotissue
bone tissue
cloth of tissue
conjunctive tissue
connective tissue
epithelial tissue
facial tissue
granulation tissue
ground tissue
intertissue
intratissue
Japanese tissue
living tissue
macrotissue
mesenchymal tissue
microtissue
mixed connective tissue disease
multitissue
neotissue
nervous tissue
nontissue
osseous tissue
palisade tissue
scar tissue
soft tissue
subtissue
tissue committee
tissue culture
tissue engineering
tissue factor
tissueless
tissuelike
tissue paper
tissue typing
tissuey
toilet tissue
vascular tissue