tissueとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.sjuː/, /ˈtɪʃu/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪʃu/
• 韻: -ɪsjuː, -ɪʃuː
• ハイフネーション: tis‧sue

名詞

tissue (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tissues)

1. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, pages 65-66:

     Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 214:

     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.

2. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
   • 1697, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 915–916, page 228:

     A Robe of Tiſſue, ſtiff with golden Wire; / An upper Veſt, once Hellen’s rich Attire; [...]

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.

3. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
4. Absorbent paper as material.
5. (biology) A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.
   • 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, "Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy:

     What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.

6. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

   a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

   • 1888, A. J. Balfour, The Religion of Humanity:

     unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion

7. (horse racing, slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.
   • 2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing:

     Pricing the first show is a matter of the bookmaker's individual judgment, relying upon advice from all quarters, particularly the tissue; but very soon in the betting exchanges it becomes clear that the sole criterion for the fixing of a horse's price is demand.

派生語

• tissue committee

動詞

tissue (三人称単数 現在形 tissues, 現在分詞 tissuing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tissued)

1. To form tissue of; to interweave.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A VVorke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 28, OCLC 1044372886:

     The Chariot was couered with Cloth of Gold tiſſued vpon blew.