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De - Pt| English Dictionary: tissue paper | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for tissue paper | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. {Business paper}, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. {Fly paper}, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. {Laid paper}. See under {Laid}. {Paper birch} (Bot.), the canoe birch tree ({Betula papyracea}). {Paper blockade}, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. {Paper boat} (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. {Paper car wheel} (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. --Forney. {Paper credit}, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. {Paper hanger}, one who covers walls with paper hangings. {Paper hangings}, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. {Paper house}, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] {Paper money}, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. {Paper mulberry}. (Bot.) See under Mulberry. {Paper muslin}, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. {Paper nautilus}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Argonauta}. {Paper reed} (Bot.), the papyrus. {Paper sailor}. (Zo[94]l.) See Argonauta. {Paper stainer}, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De Colange. {Paper wasp} (Zo[94]l.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. {Paper weight}, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. {Parchment paper}. See {Papyrine}. {Tissue paper}, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. {Wall paper}. Same as {Paper hangings}, above. {Waste paper}, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. {Wove paper}, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See {Text}.] 1. A woven fabric. 2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. --Milton. 3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc. 4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. --A. J. Balfour. {Tissue paper}, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc. | |
