• (RP) IPA: /ˈtɪsjuː/, /ˈtɪʃu/
• (America) IPA: /ˈtɪʃu/

tissue

1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
2. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

   • a robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.

3. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
4. Absorbent paper as material.
5. (biology) A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.
   • 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, "Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy ↗

     "What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation."

6. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

   a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

   • unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion

• French: tissu
• German: Gewebe
• Italian: tessuto
• Portuguese: tecido
• Russian: ткань
• Spanish: tejido

• French: mouchoir en papier, kleenex
• German: Papier, Tuch, (toilet paper) Toilettenpapier, (handkerchief) Taschentuch
• Portuguese: lenço de papel
• Russian: салфе́тка
• Spanish: tejido, pañuelo

• Portuguese: papel absorvente

• French: tissu
• German: Gewebe
• Italian: tessuto
• Portuguese: tecido
• Russian: ткань
• Spanish: tejido

tissue (tissues, present participle tissuing; past and past participle tissued)

1. To form tissue of; to interweave.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis

     Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.