text-, tex- +

An irrational dread of specific kinds of fabrics.

Of or pertaining to weaving.

1. Relating to the way a book or piece of writing is written.
2. Consisting of words or text.
3. Of or relating to or based on a text.

1. In a textual manner.
2. Regarding text.
3. Relating to, or based on, a text.

1. The structure of a substance or material; such as, soil or food, especially how it feels when touched or chewed.
2. The rough quality of a surface or fabric: She bought a fabric that has a lot of texture for her dress."
3. The feel and appearance of a surface, especially how rough or smooth it is.
4. The typical and distinctive character of something complex.
5. The way in which an artist depicts the quality or appearance of a surface.
6. The effect of the different components of a piece of music; such as, melody, harmony, rhythm, or the use of different instruments.
7. In computer graphics, surface detail added to images.

1. A piece of soft absorbent paper that can be used as a handkerchief or a towel.
2. Organic body material in animals and plants made up of large numbers of cells that are similar in form and function and their related intercellular substances.
3. A collection of similar cells and the intercellular substances surrounding them.

There are four basic kinds of tissue in the body:

• epithelium, the cellular layer covering all free surfaces: cutaneous, mucous, and serous; including the glands and other structures derived from them
• connective tissues including adipose tissue, blood, bone, and cartilage
• muscle tissue
• nerve tissue

4. An intricate interrelated series of things: "She told a tissue of lies."
5. A thin, finely woven fabric with a gauzy texture.
6. Etymology: a "band or belt of rich material", from Old French tissu, "a ribbon, headband, belt of woven material" (from about 1200); noun use of tissu, "woven, interlaced"; past participle of tistre, "to weave"; from Latin textere, "to weave".

The biological sense of "tissue" is first recorded in 1831, from French; introduced about 1800 by French anatomist Marie-François-Xavier Bichal (1771-1802).

Tissue-paper is from 1777, supposedly so called because it was made to be placed between tissues to protect them. The meaning of "piece of absorbent paper used as a handkerchief" came from 1929.

1. A net, snare, or other anything that entraps or entangles; said to be archaic or literary; and it is often used in the plural form.
2. Etymology: A "net, snare", from Middle French toile, "hunting net, cloth, web"; from Old French teile; from Latin tela, "web, woven stuff"; related to texere, "to weave". Now used largely in the plural: "He was caught in the toils of the law."
3. Another application of toil and more often used, refers to toil as being hard exhausting work or effort; to progress slowly and with difficulty.

This usage is not related to the etymology of the "net, snare" meaning of "toil".

1. A fixture for defecation and urination, consisting of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat and connected to a waste pipe and a flushing apparatus; a privy, latrine, water closet, lavatory, etc.
2. A room or booth containing the fixtures as described in number 1, above.
3. The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair; such as, "to make one's toilet"; "busy at his/her toilet".
4. Archaic: A dressing table.
5. In medicine, cleansing, as of an accidental wound and the surrounding skin, or of an obstetrical patient after childbirth.
6. Etymology: from about 1540, "a cover" or "bag for clothes", from Middle French toilette, "a cloth, bag for clothes"; diminutive of toile, "cloth, net". The evolutionary sense is the "act" or the "process of dressing" (1681); then, "a dressing room" (1819); especially, one with a lavatory attached; then it included "a lavatory" or "porcelain plumbing fixture" (1895).

A similarly functioning device, known as a water closet, is recorded as early as 1755.

Euphemisms for "toilet" abound around the world

Americans weren't the first to use euphemisms to refer to the toilet. The toilet and/or the "outhouse" have at one time or another been called the "House of Honor" (by the ancient Israelites), the "House of the Morning" (by the ancient Egyptians), the "garderobe" (literally, "cloakroom"), the "necessarium", the "necessary house", the "privy" (that is, the "private place"), the "jakes", the "john", the "W.C." (for "water closet"), "Room 100" (in Europe), the "lavatory", the "closet", the "boys' room", the "girls' room", the "mens' room", the "ladies' room"; and many other terms.

There is no "real" word for the place where one deposits one's bodily wastes. "Toilet", which is now thought of as the "official" term, is itself a euphemism.

Originally, toilet was the process of dressing, as in, "the lady has just completed her toilet".

Before toilet assumed its present meaning in the early twentieth century, the accepted technical term for the "toilet" was the vaguely disgusting but still euphemistic "bog-house". So, we have something for which there are polite terms and impolite terms, but no simply correct term.

A video communications system which is a communications service linked to an adapted television receiver, or video display terminal, by telephone or cable television lines to allow access to pages of information.

Systems can be one-way, allowing only for the display of selected information, or on-line or interactive, allowing for two-way communication.