Tissue
['tɪʃuː;'tɪsjuː] or ['tɪʃu]
Definition
(noun.) part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function.
(noun.) a soft thin (usually translucent) paper.
Typist: Portia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A woven fabric.
(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fabric, cloth, woven stuff (especially cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or figured colors).[2]. Texture, structure, web.[3]. Combination, series.
Typist: Marietta
Definition
n. cloth interwoven with gold or silver or with figured colours: (anat.) the substance of which organs are composed: a connected series.—v.t. to form as tissue: to interweave: to variegate.—n. Tis′sue-pā′per a thin soft semi-transparent kind of paper.
Checker: Lola
Examples
- What was the primitive tissue? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had not known how hurt he was, how his tissue, the very tissue of his brain was damaged by the corrosive flood of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His brain was hurt, seared, the tissue was as if destroyed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He conjectured that in vaccinal immunity the virus is accompanied by a substance which makes the nervous tissue unfavorable for the development of the mic robe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Three more birthdays of little Lucie had been woven by the golden thread into the peaceful tissue of the life of her home. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It should be remembered that the deepest cut of the recording tool is only about one-third the thickness of tissue-paper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They are square-topped, and are edged with translucent, hardish tissue, as if for crushing food. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was written on tissue paper, and wrapped up in tin-foil such as chewing tobacco is folded in. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Three hundred such layers placed one on top of the other would make a sheet no thicker than tissue-paper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Holmes pulled a large sheet of tissue-paper out of his pocket and carefully unfolded it upon his knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Gudrun came down in a daring gown of vivid green silk and tissue of gold, with green velvet bodice and a strange black-and-white band round her hair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The captain, doing things that hurt sharply and severing tissue--Are you sure? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As for paper, there is everything in white and colored, from thinnest tissue up to the heaviest asbestos, even a few newspapers being always on hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The quantity of the starch or dextrine or gelatine may be changed according as the tissues are to be more or less stiff. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This image was the background of the eye, and its delicate blood vessels and tissues could thus be observed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Such result, produced by long and continued exposure, has sometimes so deranged the skin tissues as to make sores that resulted in the entire loss of and renewal of the skin. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Hunger may be partially allayed by sleep or by the use of narcotics, tobacco and alcohol, all of which tend to diminish the disintegration of tissues. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Martin of Paris for the following preparations for making tissues fire-proof. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He specifies the arrangement of the cells in the tissues, and of the leaves on the axis, as cases in which natural selection could not have acted. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And I am more and more convinced that it will be possible to demonstrate the homogeneous origin of all the tissues. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: William