Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Thin, woven, gauzelike fabric.

    Gewebe

    тканьtkanʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

    Papier, Tuch, Toilettenpapier

    салфе́ткаsalfétka

    серве́ткаservétka

  4. (countable, uncountable)Absorbent paper as material.

    a soft thin (usually translucent) paper

  5. (countable, uncountable)A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to perform a specific job.

    Gewebe

    тканьtkanʹ

    ткани́наtkanýna

    part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function

  6. (countable, uncountable)Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

    a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

  7. (countable, slang, uncountable)The scratch sheet or racing form.

  8. (Tasmania, countable, informal, uncountable)A cigarette paper.

  9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that is light, thin, and delicate.

Examples

118 sentences
  1. Give me a tissue.

    Дай мені серветку.

    ruДай мне салфетку.

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  2. I need a tissue.

    Мені потрібен носовичок.

    deIch brauche ein Taschentuch.

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  3. Can you hand me a tissue?

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  4. Let me get you a tissue.

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  5. Can you give me a tissue?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
sheet of absorbent paper:
aggregation of cells:
Русский
By meaning 2
woven fabric:
sheet of absorbent paper:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
woven fabric:
sheet of absorbent paper:

Origin

From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to

From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).

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