tissue

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: tis=sue

CIDE DICTIONARY

tissue, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.].

•  A woven fabric.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.  [1913 Webster]

  "A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire."  [1913 Webster]

  "In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
  Holy memorials."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.  [1913 Webster]

  "Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion."  [1913 Webster]

Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

tissue, v. t. 

 To form tissue of; to interweave.  [1913 Webster]
"Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tissue, n.
1 any of the coherent collections of specialized cells of which animals or plants are made (muscular tissue; nervous tissue).
2 = tissue-paper.
3 a disposable piece of thin soft absorbent paper for wiping, drying, etc.
4 fine woven esp. gauzy fabric.
5 (foll. by of) a connected series (a tissue of lies).

Idiom

tissue-paper thin soft unsized paper for wrapping or protecting fragile or delicate articles.

Etymology

ME f. OF tissu rich material, past part. of tistre f. L texere weave

THESAURUS

tissue

accumulation, all that lives, anatomy, arabesque, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, basketry, basketwork, biosphere, biota, braiding, brawn, build, building, cancellation, chain, cloth, combination, composition, concatenation, conformation, conglomeration, constitution, construction, creation, cross-hatching, crossing-out, drapery, ecosphere, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, etoffe, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, felt, fiber, filigree, flesh, flora and fauna, forging, form, format, formation, frame, fret, fretwork, getup, goods, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, knitting, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, living matter, living nature, make, makeup, making, manufacture, mass, material, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mold, molding, napery, net, netting, network, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organic structure, organism, organization, organized matter, pack, pattern, patterning, physique, pile, plaiting, plan, plasm, plexure, plexus, production, raddle, rag, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, series, setup, shape, shaping, sieve, silk, structure, structuring, stuff, tectonics, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tracery, trellis, trelliswork, twining, twisting, warp and woof, warpage, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, wicker, wickerwork, woof, wool, wreathing

ROGET THESAURUS

tissue

Whole

N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Crossing

N crossing, intersection, interdigitation, decussation, transversion, convolution, level crossing, reticulation, network, inosculation, anastomosis, intertexture, mortise, net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace, wicker, mat, matting, plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle, tissue, netting, mokes, rivulation, cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot, entangle, cloth, linen, muslin, cambric, crossing, crossed, matted, v, transverse, cross, cruciform, crucial, retiform, reticular, reticulated, areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked, textile, crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant, web-footed, cross, thwart, athwart, transversely, at grade, crosswise.

Texture

N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.