tissue
Pluraltissues
Verbtissues, tissuing, tissued
Pluraltissues
Formstissues, tissuing, tissued
- 1A soft, thin piece of paper used for blowing your nose or wiping things.
Like a small paper cloth you use once and then throw away.
She grabbed a tissue to wipe her runny nose.
He dabbed at his eyes with a tissue during the sad scene.
- 2Soft, thin paper used as a material for wrapping or padding things.
Like the thin paper that protects new shoes inside a box.
The store wrapped the vase in soft tissue.
Wet tissue tears apart in your hands.
- 3A group of cells in the body that work together to do one job.
Like a team of workers who all do the same job together.
Muscle tissue helps your body move and lift things.
The doctor removed a small piece of damaged tissue.
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- 5A thin, see-through cloth that is soft like a fine net.
Like a soft cloth so thin you can see right through it.
Her summer dress was made of light, thin tissue.
The window was draped with pale woven tissue, almost like a net.
Similargauze
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- 6A fine, see-through silk cloth, sometimes woven with gold or silver threads.
Like a thin silk net that sparkles with gold threads.
The queen's gown shimmered with tissue threaded in gold.
Veils of fine tissue covered the noblewomen's faces.
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- 7To weave different things together into one connected piece.
Like weaving lots of threads into a single cloth.
Weavers tissue silver threads into the fabric.
They tissue many bright colors together to make one cloth.
Similarweave, interweave, intertwine
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- 8A sheet of paper that lists the horses and betting odds for a race.
Like a menu that lists every horse and its chances.
He studied the tissue before placing his bet.
She circled three horses on the tissue.
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Origin
It comes from an old French word meaning "woven," which came from the Latin word for "to weave."