ply

Signification (English)

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.

Concepts

pli

circuler

épaisseur

exercer

donner

travailler avec

contre plaqué

fibre

fil

🧶

fournir

inclination

livrer

contraindre

plier

procurer

tendance

tourner

assurer la liaison entre deux points

brin

contre-plaqué

faire le service

filament

placage

contreplaqué

courir

Synonyms

fold

run

strand

employ

exercise

layer

stratum

operate

twist

use

crease

plait

plywood

tier

wield

work

thickness

provide

cater

engage

pucker

coating

lap

apply

supply

utilize

foist

folding

frond

function

furl

gage

gauge

go around

go by

go round

habituate

impose

inclination

inject

jointing

lamella

laminated

layup

leaf

level

lift

maintain

manipulate

move

navigate

overlap

overlay

paries

pigtail

plica

pluck

practice

practise

prepare

pursue

rotate

row

ruck

ruffle

sail

sheet

spend

splice

storey

story

take

threads

thrust

train

🚋

transact

tuck

turn on

wall

work out

wrinkle

foist off

travel back and forth

work at

alcoholise

foldover

fibre

weight

address

rimple

alcoholize

bed

🛏️

bend

bias

buckle

circle

⭕

coat

🧥

course

crimp

crinkle

crook

crumple

curvature

develop

disposition

double

drill

drive

educate

exert

exploit

ferment

fiber

filament

floor

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/plaɪ/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: pleit

Cognate with français: pli

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