ply

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

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

Conceptos

chapa

ejercer

pliegue

torcer

proporcionar

capa

doblez

inclinación

practicar

propensión

torcer dos hebras en una

torcer hilo

torcer hilo de ana

torcer hilos

torzelar

dar vueltas

germinar

girar

ir alrededor de

moverse circularmente

rodar

rodear

rotar

virar en circulo

voltear

utilizar

suministrar

asir

menear

espesor

cursar

contrachapado

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/plaɪ/

Etimología (Inglés)

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, present active infinitive of plicō (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).