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Transient vs Tissue - What's the difference?

transient | tissue |

As nouns the difference between transient and tissue

is that transient is something which is transient while tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

As an adjective transient

is passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

As a verb tissue is

to form tissue of; to interweave.

transient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
    • a transient pleasure
  • * Milton
    • this transient world
  • Remaining for only a brief time.
    • a transient view of a landscape
  • (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
  • (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
  • Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
  • Passing through; passing from one person to another.
  • (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

    • Synonyms

    * (passing) passing, transitory, temporary * (brief) brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

    Antonyms

    * (passing) permanent * (brief) permanent * (mathematics) recurrent * (philosophy) immanent

    Derived terms

    * transience * transiently * transientness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which is transient.
  • (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
  • (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
  • A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
    • Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
  • An unhoused person

    • Synonyms

    * (4) traveller: itinerant, migrant, traveller * (5) homeless: homeless

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    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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