TIS´SUE (texere, weave), the cellular fabric out of which plant structures are built up.
The four little huts he had upon the shore to house his builders and crew were among the first structures of the early Manhattan colony.
Beyond Central Park, the broad public roads known as the Boulevards traverse the island northward, and many elaborate structures are being erected along them.
These financial structures at Broad and Wall Streets are regarded as the most valuable real estate in the world.
There is attached a large naval hospital, while between the two is the immense Wallabout Market, covering forty-five acres, the largest in Brooklyn, its buildings being brick structures in the old Dutch style.
Its massive piers are among the tallest structures about New York, rising two hundred and sixty-eight feet.
The provisions for the entertainment of guests at the summit were formerly very limited, a few rude stone structures furnishing shelter for such as dared brave the hardships of a night in the clouds.
The men who built those structures must have had supreme confidence in themselves, they must have possessed incalculable resources, they must have been masters of their world.
Does the sentimentalist imagine that the brick-and-mortar structures about which he wails were always centres of festering ugliness?
This probably corresponds with commencing disease of the articular surfaces, and progressive involvement of all the structures of the joint.
It usually attacks the epiglottis, the arytenoids, and the ary-epiglottic folds, but may spread and implicate all the structures of the larynx.
The rent in the capsule closes upon the neck of the bone, and fibrous adhesions form between muscles, tendons, and other structures that have been torn.
All the tissues on the medial, concave side of the foot are shortened, the structures most affected being the medial and the posterior ligaments of the ankle, and the inferior calcaneo-navicular ligament.
The articular cartilage of the head, being no longer in contact with an opposing cartilage, tends in time to be converted into fibrous tissue, and may become adherent to other fibrous structures in its vicinity.
As in other tubular structures containing circular muscular fibres, sudden contraction or spasm may occur in the œsophagus and cause narrowing of the lumen, attended with difficulty in swallowing.
It may be necessary to divide in several places the plantar fascia and other structures that have undergone secondary shortening.
Carpentry must have been well understood, in order to form such structures as the bridge thrown across the Rhine by Cæsar in the short space of ten days.
The earlier walls in both countries were undoubtedly very rude efforts--mere lath and plaster, or rough earthen structures strengthened with beams.
The reason for this course is, that no description could be given of such structures without necessitating an account of orders, styles, and proportion, into which our subject does not strictly enter.
The elfin builders of the frost have raised even more delicate structuresthan the snow.
The words cyt and hæc weras seem to point rather to wattled basket and hedge weirs than to the solid structures now called weirs.
We are not however obliged to follow the chain of the Design argument, liken these structures to objects of human art, and say, here is Design implying a Designer.
It is in answering this question that the fitnesses of organized structures yield so many important considerations.
Furthermore, she evinces readiness in fitting all her material structures to place, occasion, and circumstance.
The structures mentioned have to some minds appeared as its most serious difficulties.
The structures it is true tend a little too much of what may be termed buckram and fustian styles; indeed there is scarcely a form or a detail which an architect would care to jot down in his note-book.
The great attraction at this spot is in visiting the United States marine hospital, one of the handsomest structures in Louisiana, which stands a little above.
The structures are all fire-proof, and every thing is kept in the neatest possible condition.
With the art {261} of preserving their structures from decay they must have had an adequate acquaintance.
Old economic ties and structureshave yet to be replaced.
There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of these high explosives, for when unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight.
Certain structures gain an entirely new significance in the light of the breeding habits.
The hotel was small and its arrangements primitive; a good many of the visitors had their own cottages, and the rows of these cheap structures took their names from their occupants.
On either side the Channel, at Boulogne and Dover, structures of no mean altitude were raised for this purpose.
Seventy of this class of structures now exist in the United States.
All structures were then supported on transverse girders, running across the avenue, below the surface, and these rested on concrete piers on the central rock core.
C," and, as a temporary footwalk had been constructed on the west side of the avenue, it will be seen that all structures were thus carried on girders "C.
The ends of these girders were then picked up on the sides of the viaduct, and, spanning the central rock core, carried all structures while the core was being excavated and the viaduct completed.
The central portion of the viaduct was then erected, and, using concrete piers and timber bents, all structures were placed on its deck.
All structures were put on the girders "C" before continuing the excavation on the sides of the avenue because, in case of a slide of rock, there would be less danger than to individual structures.
This core was then excavated to sub-grade, the permanent viaduct was completed, and all structures were placed on its deck, using concrete piers and timber bents.
Girders C carrying all structures now resting on Bents on Permanent Steel.
All structures were left in place with the exception of the pipes, most of which were temporarily cut out.
It is the blast of the universal sweeping away all the habitations and fixed structures of particularist life.
They must at the same time be regarded as necessary structures in the path of development,--in short, in the history of the State.
These complicated structures are built upon the low, marshy, alluvial plains along the Po, but show many points of similarity with the true pile dwellings.
The former are not distinguishable from similar structures in the Swiss lake dwellings, but the terramare are entirely peculiar to Italy.
Baku has only recently begun making progress on economic reform, and old economic ties and structures are slowly being replaced.
The parallel banded structures of many granites, which may be original or due to crushing, connect these rocks with the granite gneisses or orthogneisses.
The deposits take place in other structures besides those of joints, such as along the course of tendons, underneath the skin and periosteum, in the sclerotic coat of the eye, and especially on the cartilages of the external ear.
The rocks of this group accompany gabbro and serpentine, but the exact conditions under which they are formed and the significance of their structures is not very clearly understood.
In the earlier type the bin was made of an iron or steel framework filled in with concrete, but more recent structures are composed entirely of steel rods embedded in cement.
Others weather into large cuboidal blocks which may produce structures resembling cyclopean masonry.
Around the garnets there is often a radial grouping of small grains of pyroxene and hornblende in a clear matrix of felspar: these "centric" structures are frequent in granulites.
There is some difference of opinion as to which structure or structures represent the cotyledon.
It was fearful to behold these huge structuresurged along by a concealed force, partly of men and partly of animals, and drawing nigh the walls.
These, astonishing as it must seem, have withstood the ravages of time for thousands of years; and now present to the curious a character unlike that of any structures which have come down to the present period of the world.
They have the porphyritic and panidiomorphic structures described in the rocks of the previous group, and like them also have an ocellar character, often very conspicuous under the microscope.
There is an exciting glimpse of greensward, flowering shrubbery, roses, vines, and a vista of the ends of enormous structurespainted yellow.
He opened the screen door of the cafeteria, half expecting it to prove one of those structures equipped only with a front.
There were the vast yellow-brick, glass-topped structures of which he had seen but the ends.
Then he explored farther and felt curiously disappointed at finding that these structures were to real houses what a dicky is to a sincere, genuine shirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "structures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
