tissue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
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lifestyle
medicine
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pets
racing
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).
Inflected forms:
form: tissues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tissues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tissuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tissued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tissued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Robe of Tiſſue, ſtiff with golden Wire; / An upper Veſt, once Hellen’s rich Attire; [...]
In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
Corinius went on the right, wearing a rich cloak of sky-blue tissue over his shining armour.
gloss: A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Absorbent paper as material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to perform a specific job.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.
gloss: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
gloss: The scratch sheet or racing form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A cigarette paper.
pos: noun
tags: Tasmania
countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: To form tissue of; to interweave.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Chariot was couered with Cloth of Gold tiſſued vpon blew.
gloss: To have the contents of an injection or intravenous drip leak into the tissue as a result of a ruptured or punctured vein.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Derived words: adipose tissue
antitissue
bathroom tissue
bath tissue
biotissue
bone tissue
cloth of tissue
conjunctive tissue
connective tissue
deep 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
tissual
tissue committee
tissue culture
tissue engineering
tissue equivalent material
tissue factor
tissueless
tissuelike
tissue paper
tissue typing
tissuey
toilet tissue
vascular tissue
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