n. | 1. | A woven fabric. | |||
2. | A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. | ||||
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; | ||||
4. | Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion.
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v. t. | 1. | To form tissue of; to interweave. |
Noun | 1. | tissue - a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function |
2. | tissue - a soft thin (usually translucent) paper Synonyms: tissue paper | |
Verb | 1. | tissue - create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" Synonyms: weave |