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Weave vs Tissue - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between weave and tissue

is that weave is to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another or weave can be to move by turning and twisting while tissue is to form tissue of; to interweave.

As nouns the difference between weave and tissue

is that weave is a type or way of weaving while tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

weave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , Swedish '' .

Verb

  • To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
    • This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
  • To spin a cocoon or a web.
    • Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
  • To unite by close connection or intermixture.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
  • * Byron
    • these words, thus woven into song
  • To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
    • to weave the plot of a story
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type or way of weaving.
    • That rug has a very tight weave .
  • Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .

    Verb

    (weav)
  • To move by turning and twisting.
    • The drunk weaved into another bar.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player. }}
  • To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
    • The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
  • * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Weave a circle round him thrice.

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    tissue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 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 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.

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