ply

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A layer of material.

   “two-ply toilet paper”

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

   “To make the hail rod a rope of straw is the first thing necessary; it must be made of ripe wheat straw, soaked and twisted, plaited with three strand and then with four ply, making twelve strand to the rope.”

3. isim Clipping of plywood.

   “The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels.”

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

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

5. isim A condition, a state.

   “You may be ſure, in the ply I was now taking, I had no objection to the propoſal, and was rather a tiptoe for its accompliſhment.”

6. fiil To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
7. fiil To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
8. fiil To work at (something) diligently.

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

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

   “He plied his ax with bloody results.”

10. fiil To press upon; to urge persistently.

    “to ply someone with questions or solicitations”

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

    “to ply someone with drink”

12. fiil To travel over (a route) regularly.

    “to ply the seven seas”

13. fiil To work diligently.

    “[…] Ere halfe theſe Authors be read, which will ſoon be with plying hard, and dayly, they cannot chooſe but be maſters of any ordinary proſe.”

14. fiil 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.

    “Weighed anchor about five morn, and plied till about noon, and then anchored. This day, at morn, went about the general to council: the result was, the fleet should ply near, as with convenience, to the Texel, to prevent a conjunction of those ships there with Admiral [Maarten] Tromp; […]”

15. isim A bent; a direction.