Tissue vs Cloth - What's the difference?
tissue | cloth |
Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
* Dryden
* Milton
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
Absorbent paper as material.
(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: . Book 1, Part 10.
Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
* A. J. Balfour
To form tissue of; to interweave.
(uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
As nouns the difference between tissue and cloth
is that tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric while cloth is a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.As a verb tissue
is to form tissue of; to interweave.tissue
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue . […].}}
- a robe of tissue , stiff with golden wire
- In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
- 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;
- a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
- unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion
Verb
(tissu)- Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.
Anagrams
*cloth
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}