ply

Signification (Anglais)

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.

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

Synonymes

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

Traductions

betreiben

plooi

stratagemma

αρμενίζω με βόλτες

maneggiare

assillare

Falte

handhaben

Lage

Schicht

filo

🧵

manovra

strato

usare

vouw

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/plaɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pleit

Appartenant à français: pli

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