tissue

1. 1.

   create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton

   “tissue textiles”

   Synonymsweave

   Broadercreate from raw material

   Narrowerwebloombrocadelacebraidtwill

   handicraft

Other forms of tissue

plural

tissues·

past tense

tissued·

present participle

tissuing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tissue

What does tissue mean?

tissue means "part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tissue?

tissue has 2 syllables: tis-sue. The stress falls on "tis". In IPA it is /ˈtɪsˌju/.

What is another word for tissue?

Close synonyms include tissue paper, weave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tissue a common word?

tissue is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tissue?

10 words rhyme with tissue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.