Tissue vs Pen - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tissue and pen

is that tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric while pen is an enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

As verbs the difference between tissue and pen

is that tissue is to form tissue of; to interweave while pen is to enclose in a pen.

tissue

English

Noun

(en noun)

Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

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

* Dryden

a robe of tissue , stiff with golden wire

* Milton

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.

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.

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;

Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

* A. J. Balfour

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

Verb

(tissu)

To form tissue of; to interweave.

Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.

Anagrams

pen

English

(wikipedia pen)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced by

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

There are two steers in the third pen .

A place to confine a person; a prison cell.

They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

(baseball) The bullpen.

Two righties are up in the pen .

Verb

To enclose in a pen.

* Milton

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (Modern English (m)); note the /p/ ? /f/ Germanic sound change. See feather and for more.

Noun

(en noun)

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

He took notes with a pen .

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

He has a sharp pen .

* Fuller

those learned pens

A light pen.

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:

And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd, / Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, / With which whenas him list the ayre to beat

(poetic) A wing.

(Milton)

Derived terms

* ball pen * ball-point pen * border pen * bull pen * cartridge pen * felt-tip pen * fountain pen * goose pen * lettering pen * pen cancellation * pen feather * pen-mate * penmanship * pen name * pen pal * pen-pusher * poison pen * you don't dip your pen in company ink

Verb

(penn)

To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Noun

(en noun)

A female swan.

Etymology 4

Shortned form of penalty

Noun

(en noun)

penalty

References

Anagrams

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