tissue

tissue
    n 1: 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},
       {tissue paper}]
    v 1: create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric,
         such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: {weave},
         {tissue}]
    

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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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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157 Moby Thesaurus words for "tissue":
      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