ply

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A layer of material.
2. (countable, uncountable) A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable) Clipping of plywood.
4. (countable, uncountable) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
5. (Scotland, countable, uncountable) A condition, a state.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).

Verb

1. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
2. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
3. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
4. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
5. (ambitransitive) To travel over (a route) regularly.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.

Conceptes

proporcionar

subministrar

exercir

gruix

contraplacat

contraxapat

xapa

Sinònims

fold

run

strand

exercise

employ

layer

operate

crease

stratum

use

plait

twist

plywood

engage

pucker

coating

utilize

apply

supply

wield

provide

work

thickness

lap

cater

tier

ferment

crinkle

exploit

fiber

exert

crimp

buckle

lamella

inject

educate

course

bias

drive

go round

drill

go by

go around

habituate

impose

inclination

double

jointing

gauge

gage

Traduccions

betreiben

plooi

pli

stratagemma

épaisseur

manovra

αρμενίζω με βόλτες

Falte

Lage

Schicht

handhaben

exercer

filo

🧵

maneggiare

circuler

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/plaɪ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: pleit

Cognat amb francès: pli

Heretat de anglès mitjà: plīen

In summary

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 plicāre (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).