Meaning

5 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A layer of material.

    two-ply toilet paper

    Lage

  2. (countable, uncountable)A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.

    one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination

  3. (countable, uncountable)In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.

    He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.

    Halbzug

    полухо́дpoluxód

  4. (Scotland, countable, uncountable)A condition, a state.

  5. A bent; a direction.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. He plied me with tequila all evening.

    ruОн весь вечер усиленно угощал меня текилой. — marafon

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  2. She plied her trade near the freeway on ramp.

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  3. He plied her with alcohol until she was unable to resist his advances.

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  4. Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.

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  5. They plied me with questions.

    ruОни забросали меня вопросами. — marafon

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
in two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
layer of material:
in two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players:

Origin

From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braide

From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plicāre (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

From apply; compare Middle English plīen, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for aplīen, applīen (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applicāre, present active infinitive of applicō (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“to, towards”) + plicō (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.

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Forms

plural: ply / plies / plys
Singularply
Pluralply / plies / plys

regular

Word family

10 related words
Derivedbias-plycross-plymanypliesplyboardplyscraperplywoodsingle-ply membranesingle-ply roofthree-plytwo-ply

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

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