tissue

English

Etymology

From Old French tissu, past participle of tistre, from Latin texere.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɪsjuː/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈtɪʃjuː/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsjuː, -ɪʃjuː

Noun

tissue (plural tissues)

1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
2. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
3. Absorbent paper as material.
4. (biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
   • 1924, ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: <http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/>. Book 1, Part 10.

     But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of them should;

Translations

woven fabric

• Catalan: teixit (ca) m
• Danish: stof (da)
• Dutch: weefsel (nl) n
• Finnish: harsokangas, harsokudos
• French: tissu (fr) m
• German: Gewebe (de) n
• Greek: ύφασμα [ˈifaˌzma] n, πλέγμα [ˈple̞ɣma] n, ορμαθός [o̞rmaˈθo̞s] m
• Hebrew: רקמה (he) f
• Ido: texajo (io) m

• Italian: tessuto (it)
• Japanese: 織物 (ja) (おりもの, orimono)
• Latin: textus (la)
• Portuguese: tecido (pt) m
• Romanian: batistă f, șervețel n
• Russian: ткань (ru) (tkanʹ) f
• Slovene: robec (sl) m
• Spanish: tejido (es) m

sheet of absorbent paper

• Arabic: مندل (ar) (mindil) m

  Egyptian Arabic: منديل (mandil) m

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面巾紙 (cmn), 面巾纸 (cmn) (miànjīnzhǐ), 紙巾 (cmn), 纸巾 (cmn) (zhǐjīn)

• Danish: serviet (da), (handkerchief) lommetørklæde (da), (toilet paper) toiletpapir (da)
• Dutch: zakdoek m, papieren zakdoekje n, tissue m
• Finnish: talouspaperi (fi), paperiliina (fi), (handkerchief) paperinenäliina, (sheet of toilet paper) vessapaperiarkki
• French: tissu (fr) m, mouchoir en papier (fr) m, kleenex (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Papier n, Tuch n, Toilettenpapier n (toilet paper), Taschentuch n (handkerchief)
• Greek: χαρτί [xarˈti] n

• Hebrew: טישו m, נייר סופג m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: ciarsúr páipéir (ga) m
• Japanese: ティッシュペーパー (ja) (tisshu pēpā)
• Macedonian: салфетка (mk) (salfétka) Template:csalfétka
• Persian: دستمال (fa) (dastmal)
• Polish: chusteczka higieniczna f, chusteczka f
• Portuguese: lenço de papel (pt)
• Russian: салфетка (ru) (salfétka) f
• Slovene: robec m, robček m
• Spanish: tejido (es) m
• Swedish: näsduk (sv) c
• Tamil: மெல்லிழுப்புத்தாள் (mellizhuppuththaaL)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: khăn giấy (vi)

paper material

• Finnish: pehmopaperi (fi)

• Portuguese: papel absorvente m

aggregation of cells

• Azerbaijani: toxuma
• Basque: ehun (eu)
• Catalan: teixit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組織 (cmn), 组织 (cmn) (zǔzhī)

• Czech: tkáň (cs) f
• Danish: væv (da) n
• Dutch: weefsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: histo (eo)
• Finnish: kudos (fi), solukko (fi)
• French: tissu (fr) m
• German: Gewebe (de) n
• Greek: ιστός [iˈsto̞s] m
• Hebrew: רקמה f
• Hindi: ऊतक (hi) (ūtak) m
• Icelandic: vefur (is) m

• Italian: tessuto (it) m
• Japanese: 組織 (ja) (そしき, soshiki)
• Macedonian: ткиво (mk) (tkívo) n
• Malay: tisu (ms)
• Persian: بافت (baaft)
• Polish: tkanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tecido (pt) m
• Romanian: țesut n
• Russian: ткань (ru) (tkanʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: maothran (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: ткиво (sh) (tkivo) n
• Slovene: tkivo (sl) n
• Spanish: tejido (es) m
• Swedish: vävnad (sv) c
• Turkish: doku (tr)
• Volapük: histun (vo)

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• Ido: texajo

Verb

tissue (third-person singular simple present tissues, present participle tissuing, simple past and past participle tissued)

1. To form tissue of; to interweave.

   Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.

Anagrams

• suites