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Tussle vs Tissue - What's the difference?

tussle | tissue |

As nouns the difference between tussle and tissue

is that tussle is a physical fight or struggle while tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

As verbs the difference between tussle and tissue

is that tussle is to have a tussle while tissue is to form tissue of; to interweave.

tussle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A physical fight or struggle.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And the visiting side appeared to settle quickly as Wayne Routledge, who had a tough tussle with Stevenage left-back Scott Laird, delivered an early cross that Barton drilled goalwards, forcing a decent save from Chris Day.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22tussle%22 citation , isbn=978054505575 , page=32 , passage=..., two young men—field hands—got into a tussle with a white man.}}

    Verb

    (tussl)
  • To have a tussle.
    • The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.}}

    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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