noun

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A layer of material.

example

two-ply toilet paper

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A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.

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Short for plywood.

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

example

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

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A condition, a state.

verb

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To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.

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To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).

verb

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To work at (something) diligently.

example

He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.

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To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.

example

He plied his ax with bloody results.

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To press upon; to urge persistently.

example

to ply someone with questions or solicitations

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To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.

example

to ply someone with drink

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To travel over (a route) regularly.

example

The steamer plies between several ports on the coast.

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To work diligently.

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To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

Examples of plies in a Sentence

A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis.

A fall-block is attached to a fixed point; a running-block is movable to and from a fall-block, with which it is connected by two or more plies of a rope.

The load, supported by the lower hook, is raised by hauling on the free end and, neglecting any slight obliquity of the plies of rope, the free end moves six times as fast H L C FIG.

Coracle-fishing is performed by two men, each seated in his coracle and with one hand holding the net while with the other he plies his paddle.

A government steamer runs regularly from Bathurst to McCarthy's Island, and a smaller boat plies on the upper river.

When the weather cools down, heavier double and triple plies reign supreme and provide comfort.

The thickness of yarn is also determined by how many plies or strands it has twisted together.

Unusually satirical today, he plies the unwilling veil across, now prostrate in humility.

My source for this revelation is an ice-cream vendor who plies his trade on Via España, the main street of the Panamanian capital.

Additional plies result in a stronger and more rigid needle.

High quality needles have two or three plies, each ten to twelve microns thick.

Finer yarn is usually two- or three-ply, while bulky yarn can have up to 14 plies.

At the time of the last great subsidence, in glacial times, an arm of the sea extended across Sweden, submerging a great part of the littoral up to the Gulf of Bothnia, and including the Plies period the this of themnorthe and Baltic were s fg ficiently salt for oysters to flourish.

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