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tissue - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'tissue' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tissue [ n.]
- A woven fabric.
- A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- 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.
- Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
2 . Tissue [ v. t.]
- To form tissue of; to interweave.

Meaning of 'tissue' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . tissue [ v]
Meaning (1):
- create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
Example in sentence:
  • tissue textiles