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tissue

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1. tissue - Noun

2. tissue - Verb

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A woven fabric.

A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

To form tissue of; to interweave.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. Henry James

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. Michael Behe

During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true "vacation paradise," offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey. Dave Barry

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