tissue

tissue

Meaning

1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
2. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
3. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
4. Absorbent paper as material.
5. A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
6. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
7. (slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.

silk paper

spider’s web

wrapping tissue

paper handkerchief

textile fabric

textus

tissue-paper

thin skin

facial tissue

paper tissue

absorbent paper

Frequency

Hyphenated as

tis‧sue

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɪs.juː/

From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).

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