tissue

Meanings

Noun

• Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
• A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
• A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
• Absorbent paper as material.
• A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.
• Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
• The scratch sheet or racing form.

Verb

• To form tissue of; to interweave.

Origin

• From Middle English tyssew, from Old French tissu, past participle of tistre, from Latin texere.