What is tissue?

  • (verb): Create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton.
    Example: "Tissue textiles"
    Synonyms: weave
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More definitions of "tissue":

  • (noun): A part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function.
  • (noun): A soft thin (usually translucent) paper.
    Synonyms: tissue paper

Famous quotes containing the word tissue:

    “Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)