English Explanatory Dictionary

tissue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
  2. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
  3. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
  4. Absorbent paper as material.
  5. A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
  6. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
  7. The scratch sheet or racing form.
verb
  1. To form tissue of; to interweave.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɪs.juː/ /ˈtɪʃ.ju/ en-uk-tissue.ogg /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/ en-us-tissue.ogg

Word forms

tissue tissues tissuing tissued

Etymology

From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).

Derived words

adipose tissue antitissue bathroom tissue bath 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 equivalent material tissue factor tissueless tissuelike tissue paper tissue typing tissuey toilet tissue vascular tissue
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