Definitions for tissue

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tissue tis·sue

Spelling: [tish-oo or, esp. British, tis-yoo]

IPA: /ˈtɪʃ u or, esp. British, ˈtɪs yu/

Tissue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in tissue (eisstu).

Definitions for tissue

noun

1. Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
2. tissue paper.
3. any of several kinds of soft gauzy papers used for various purposes:
4. an interwoven or interconnected series or mass:
5. a piece of thin writing paper on which carbon copies are made.
6. a woven fabric, especially one of light or gauzy texture, originally woven with gold or silver:

verb (used with object)

1. to remove (a cosmetic or cream) with a facial tissue (often followed by off):
2. to weave, especially with threads of gold and silver.

Origin of tissue

1325-75; Middle English tissew, variant of tissu Middle French, Old French, noun use of past participle of tistre to weave Latin texere

Examples for tissue

He pointed to the ring and the bit of tissue paper on the table.

Seven assigned to this task filled each stadium section and also handed out flats of tissue packets.

She dabbed them with a tissue and continued without ceremony.

Otherwise they have to go elsewhere for tissue flaps and movement of large chunks of dissected flesh from here to there.

The covers were electrified and clung to him like tissue to rubbed amber.

Still staring, Lépine handed him the second sheet of tissue.

Medical personnel were expecting Rondin on Monday at Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and tissue Therapy.

She lined the hat with, tissue paper and then, put it on his head again.

Butters kept staring, stone still, the tissue box perfectly balanced.

He was wrapping the beautiful smell again in the tissue wrappings.