tissue Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
noun a soft thin (usually translucent) paper
tissue paper.
verb create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
weave.
- tissue textiles

F. tissu, fr. tissu, p.p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.

A woven fabric.
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. Dryden.

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.
(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. ✍ 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.
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. A. J. Balfour.

imperfect & past participle Tissued ; present participle & verbal noun Tissuing

To form tissue of; to interweave.
Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.