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Tissue   /tˈɪsjˌu/  /tˈɪʃu/   Listen
Tissue

noun
1.
Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function.
2.
A soft thin (usually translucent) paper.  Synonym: tissue paper.
verb
(past & past part. tissued; pres. part. tissuing)
1.
Create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton.  Synonym: weave.



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"Tissue" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these earthly organs. It has left its darkened dust behind. It has outsoared the shadow of our night. God does not trifle with his creatures by bringing to nothing the ripe fruit of the ages by the lesion of a cerebral cell, or some bodily tissue. Life does not die, but matter dies off from it. The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,—this agent of immense resource and boundless ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... which was painted blue and sprinkled with stars, to represent the night heavens, and which was supported on pillars carved, some in the form of date-palms, and some like cedars of Lebanon; the leaves and twigs consisted of artfully fastened and colored tissue; elegant festoons of bluish gauze were stretched from pillar to pillar across the hall, and in the centre of the eastern wall they were attached to a large shell-shaped canopy extending over the throne of the king, which was decorated with pieces ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose, and was, perhaps, written in less time than the Virgin Martyr; though the author thought not fit, either ostentatiously or mournfully, to tell how little labour ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... literature, and doubtless always will. Specters seem never to wear out or to die, but renew their tissue both of person and of raiment, in marvelous fashion, so that their number increases with a Malthusian relentlessness. We of to-day have the ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

... the epidermis alone on the opposite side being left quite clean. The veins were never touched, and leaves were thus sometimes partly converted into skeletons. As worms have no teeth and as their mouths consist of very soft tissue, it may be presumed that they consume by means of suction the edges and the parenchyma of fresh leaves, after they have been softened by the digestive fluid. They cannot attack such strong leaves as those of sea-kale ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin


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