[ˈtɪsjuː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made, consisting of specialized cells and their products
(e.g: inflammation is a reaction of living tissue to infection or injury)

- tissue paper
(e.g: a slim package wrapped in blue tissue)

- an intricate structure or network made from a number of connected items
(e.g: such scandalous stories are a tissue of lies)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French tissu ‘woven’, past participle of tistre, from Latin texere ‘to weave’. The word originally denoted a rich material, often interwoven with gold or silver threads, later (mid 16th century) any woven fabric, hence the notion of ‘intricacy’