Tissue vs Pen - What's the difference?
tissue | pen |
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.
An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
A place to confine a person; a prison cell.
(baseball) The bullpen.
To enclose in a pen.
* Milton
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
(figurative) A writer, or his style.
* Fuller
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:
(poetic) A wing.
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
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)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
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English
(wikipedia pen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at pin. Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to enclosure for persons (1845), later influenced byNoun
(en noun)- There are two steers in the third pen .
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- Two righties are up in the pen .
Verb
- 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)- He took notes with a pen .
- He has a sharp pen .
- those learned pens
- 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
- (Milton)
