Ply

Definition: Ply

Ply

Noun

1. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination: "three-ply cord"; "four-ply yarn".

2. (usually in combination) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood.

Verb

1. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests".

2. Apply oneself diligently; "Ply one's trade".

3. Travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast".

4. Wield vigorously; "ply an axe".

5. Use diligently; "ply your wits!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ply" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Industry

Industry

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ply

Action

Employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand; (business); labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course; (conduct).

Barter

Trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.

Business

Drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; Noun: keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.

Exertion

Labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar

Navigation

Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Use

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Crosswords: Ply

References

• The World Market for Plywood with Each Ply Not Over 6 mm Thick: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bertolt Brecht Collected Ply (reference)

• Englsh Hstry Ply Shw (reference)

• Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (reference)

• Ply (reference)

• SM School Ply, the L.Critr\Lgb (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Carter's Two Ply Receiving Blanket - John Lennon Collection - Yellow (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - Left-handed and right handed pupils in lower grade class ply their pencils. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

In 1995, China’s tire output reached more than 55 million sets, 13% of total output was radial ply tires. (references)

Economic History

Eq. Guinea

Some 40 Spanish trawlers ply the coast off Malabo, irregularly supplying some red snapper and mackerel to the local market while taking large quantities of tuna, shrimp and lobster to Spain. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Labels for pants, skirts, pajamas, shorts, tights, or half-slips, must be affixed at any appropriate place, such as the inside waistband or inner facing of the ply. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ply": inner ply ♦ outer ply ♦ ply a trade ♦ ply between ♦ ply for hire ♦ ply one's oars ♦ ply rating ♦ ply smb. with drink ♦ ply smb. with questions ♦ ply the labouring oar ♦ ply the oar ♦ ply the seas ♦ ply with ♦ three ply ♦ to ply ♦ two ply. Additional references.

Beginning with "ply": ply-wood.

Ending with "ply": single-ply, three-ply, two-ply.

Containing "ply": radial-ply tire, radial-ply tyre.

Albanian

punoj me, ushtroj (discipline, drill, practise, profess, pursue, train), shtresë e kompensatës, dend (pump), bombardoj (bomb, bombard, glide-bomb, pelt, pound, prang, shell, zap), bie kryq-e-tërthor (roam). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلاظة (thickness), ‏إستعمل (anticipate, bestow, employ, spend, use), ‏الرقيقة طبقة من الخشب, ‏جس (feel, necking, palpate, palpation, paw, pet, probe, probing, touch), ‏ذرع جيئة و ذهوبا, ‏عمل في التاكسي, ‏ثنية (flection, fold, goffer, plait, pleat, ruck, shirring, tuck), ‏سافر بحرا, ‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏قرطاس (leaf), ‏لية (flection), ‏ناضل (agonize, buffet, combat, contend, contest, fight, heave, militate, pursue, push, strive, struggle, tug, worry, wrestle), ‏نزعة (bent, bias, direction, disposition, genius, leaning, movement, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind), ‏مجموعة حبال, ‏مطر بالاسئلة, ‏سافر بإستمرار. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кат, пласт (bed, coat, layer, mine, overlay, region, sheet, stratum, thickness), плувам срещу вятъра, поддържам (adhere, atlas, back, bear, buoy, carry, contend, expound, favour, feed, fuel, help on, hold, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, play along, promote, prop up, pull for, retain, run, service, side with, stand for, stand in with, support, sustain, take, upbear, uphold, vindicate, vouch), практикувам (exercise, practice, practise, prosecute), жичка (fiber, fibre, strand), нишка (clew, clue, fiber, fibre, strand, thread, train), наливам (fill, infuse, pour, pour out, pump in), движа (impel, move, run, stir, work), отрупвам (clutter, heap, heap smth. up, heap up, overwhelm, pile, smother, snow under), упражнявам (drill, exercise, exert, pace, practice, practise, profess, pursue, rehearse, train), тенденция (drift, hang, movement, pattern, proclivity, proneness, propensity, run, set, stream, tendency, tenor, tide, trend, turn, vein), тъпча (cram, glut, jam, ram, shovel, squeeze, stodge, stuff, tread), чакам пътници, чакам клиенти, работя усърдно с, слой (coat, coating, layer, range, region, section, stratum, thickness), склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), употребявам (apply, employ, use, utilize), настойчиво каня. (various references)

Chinese 

一层. (various references)

Czech

pracovat na èem, zásobovat (feed, supply), záhyb (crease, Crinkle, fold, gather, meander, plait, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), vrstva (bank, bed, class, coat, coating, film, layer, stratum), vládnout èím, spojovat (concatenate, connect, knit, splice), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), obrat (conversion, return, reverse, rifle, spoil, strip, trim, turn, turnover, veer). (various references)

Danish

ply (fold), lag (bed, coat, course, lag, layer, level, round, seam, sheath, sheet, slab, stratum, streak, tier, veneer, veneer sheet), garnpart (fold), finerplade (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), finerlag (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), finer (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), finér (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet). (various references)

Dutch

laag (abject, base, deep, layer, low, nasty, vile), fineerlaag (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), fineerhout (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), fineerblad (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), blad fineer (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet). (various references)

Farsi 

یک لای طناب , چندلاکردن , لایه کاغذ, وامدکردن , تخته چندلا (Plywood), تاه کردن (Fold, Lap, Ruffe), تاه (Plait, Plica, Tuck), ترددکردن.لا, رفت (Supremacy, Went), دولاکردن (Bend, Double). (various references)

Finnish

viilu (veneer), välittää liikennettä (carry on traffic, run), kerros (floor, layer, storey, story, stratum). (various references)

French

pli (pleat, plica). (various references)

German

Schicht (coat, coating, film, layer, level, order, rank, sheet, shift, strata, stratum, streak, thickness). (various references)

Greek 

κόντρα πλακέ (plywood), καπλαμάσ (plywood), καπλαμάς (veneer), στρώση (coating, spreading), στρώμα (coat, layer, litter, mattress, sheet, stratum, stroma), πτυχή (crease, crumple, fold, plait, pucker, rimple, ruck, ruffle, tuck), χειρίζομαι εργαλείο, φύλλο επικάλυψης (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), φύλλο (frond, lamella, leaf), φιλοπονώ, ενασχολώ (engage), ενασχολούμαι (engage), επιμέρους φύλλο (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), διπλώνω (double, fold, furl, lap, plait), διαπλέω (navigate, sail). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעבו�" במרץ, ל�"מטיר על, ל�"פעיל (activate, actuate, bring into play, operate, set in motion, start, trigger, turn on, wield, work), שכב�" (class, coating, film, lay, layer, precipitate, sheet, stratum), עובי (density, thick, thickness). (various references)

Hungarian

hajtás (burgeon, drift, drift work, drive, offset, offshoot, propulsion, quartering, scion, shoot, sprig, sprout, stem, sucker), sodrat, redőzés (corrugation), rétegezés, hajlás (bend, camber, flexion, hang, incline, lean, rise, splay, sweep, synclinal, talus, tilt), görbület (bend, bending, camber, crook, curvature, curve, elbow, flex, long bend), fonat (braid, rope). (various references)

Indonesian

lapiran, hilir mudik. (various references)

Italian

capo (article, boss, Cape, chief, chieftain, employer, end, foreland, head, headland, headman, item, leader, Lord, master, naze, Ness, overman, ringleader, top). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'り (twist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

より (twist). (various references)

Korean 

가닥. (various references)

Manx

obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, influence, labour, motion, operate, operation, performance, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak), jannoo turrys, filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, roll up, turn up, wrap). (various references)

Pig Latin

yplay.(various references)

Portuguese

prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, plait, pleat, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), placagem (pancake), folha (gazette, leaf, magazine, newspaper, periodical, sheet, sheet metal, tin), cabo (bight, cable, cape, cord, corporal, end, flex, foreland, gripe, guy, hand, handle, helve, hilt, hokum, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non-com, non-commissioned officer, preventer, rope, stock, tail), camada (daub, deposit, handsel, hansel, lay, layer, reef, sheet, stratum, streak, tier), cordão (astragal, cordon, lace, ribbon, rope, string, tie, twine, wale), dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, fold, gather, kink, lap, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle), encher de (inject, spray, stick, strew), assediar (beset, besiege, bombard, pester), fibra (fiber, thread), trabalhar em (work at), folheado de madeira (layer, sheet, veneer, veneer sheet), oferecer (bid, dedicate, donate, extend, give, hold forth, hold out, introduce, make an offer of, offer, perform, proffer, put on the stage, tender), trabalhar com, espessura (bigness, density, depth, thickness). (various references)

Romanian

pilota (fly, hand signal, navigate, pilot, sail, steer), trage la rame, strat (bed, coating, film, layer, ledge, lick, mantle, measures, overlay, ridge, seam, sheet, stratum), numãr de dublaje, naviga în voltã (cast), lucra cu, jurubiţã (hank, skein), fi ocupat cu (busy oneself with), face naveta pe, efectua (accomplish, achieve, effect, effectuate, execute, fulfil, perform, prosecute), cutã (crease, flow, fold, frill, line, seam, wrinkle), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crook, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, redouble, stoop, tuck in), înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation). (various references)

Russian 

уклон (bias, deviation, dip, downgrade, draft, draught, fall, grade, gradient, incline, plane, ramp, slant, slope, taper), складка (corrugation, crease, fold, lappet, plait, plica, plication, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), слой (coating, lay, layer, sheet, strata, stratum, thickness, tissue), курсировать (run), оборот (return, revolution, turn, turnover, volute, wheeling, wind), засыпать (fall asleep, swamp), заниматься (attend, be engaged in, busy, concern ~ with, engage, engage in, engage in the, follow, go in for, practise, pursue, stick with, study), прядь (strand), пропускать (gate through, ignore, leave out, let by, lose, missed, omit, overjump, overleap, pass, pretermit, reeve, skip over, skipped, skips). (various references)

Scottish

sgiathalaich (flitting, ply the wings; v.n. winging). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

struk (stalk, stem, stipe, waist, waistline), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), sloj (coat, layer, ledge, patch, strata, stratum, thickness), saobraćati (operate, run), saletati (assail, besiege, importune, pester, solicit, urge). (various references)

Spanish

chapa (plate, sheet, sheet iron, tag, veneer), cabo (cable, Cape, Corporal, end, point, rope, sergeant, serjeant, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, termination, tip). (various references)

Swedish

veck (cockle, convolution, crease, Crimp, crinkle, fold, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, tuck, wrinkle), lager (bay, bearing, bearings, coating, course, garner, inventory, lager, lap, laurel, layer, seam, sheet, stock, strata, tier), bearbeta (adapt, canvass, cultivate, machine, prepare, process, tool, treat, work). (various references)

Turkish

plise (plait, plaiting, pleat), yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), tabaka (bed, cigarette case, coat, coating, collection, covering, lamina, layer, order, rank, sheet, sphere, stage, stratum), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exert, exploit, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), katmer (plication), kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, floor, fold, lap, layer, multiple, pile, stair, storey, story), icra etmek (profess), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, cod, control, dupe, exploit, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt, warp), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), durmadan vermek (ply with), dayamak (base on, base upon, lean against, ply with, prop, prop up, recline, recline on, recline upon, rest, support), bunaltmak (bore, drive smb. to the wall, give the willies, oppress, ply with, push smb. to the wall, stupefy, weigh down, whelm). (various references)

Ukrainian

старанно працювати (apply, lucubrate), умовляти (admonish, blandish, cajole, expostulate, persuade, reassure, tempt, woo, word), складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ruckle, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), частувати (regale), шар (bed, flake, layer, slice, stratum, thickness), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), згин (bending, bight, buckle, crease, flection, flexion, fold, wimple, wind, winding, wriggle), займатися (carry on, deal in, do, employ, engage in, go in for, kindle, profess, prosecute, pursue), петля (button hole, kink, loop, necklace, noose, stitch, tag, twitch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thói quen (groove, habit, habitude, praxis), nếp. (various references)

applicare, plicare. (various references)

pli. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ply": plyer, plyers, plying, plyingly, plyometric, plyometrics, plywood, plywoods. (additional references)

Words ending with "ply": amply, apply, cheaply, comply, crisply, crumply, damply, deeply, dimply, haply, imply, jimply, limply, misapply, multiply, octuply, overply, oversimply, oversupply, panoply, pimply, plumply, purply, quadruply, reapply, reply, resupply, ripply, rumply, sextuply, sharply, simply, steeply, supply, triply, undersupply. (additional references)

Words containing "ply": applying, complying, implying, misapplying, multiplying, noncomplying, noncomplyings, overplying, oversupplying, reapplying, replying, resupplying, supplying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ply" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dply, hly, lpi, oly, pbl, pcl, pey, Phy, pilly, piy, pjl, plc, pld, ple, pleye, pli, plie, plieh, plig, Plim, Plix, pliy, Pliz, pll, plo, plt, plu, plye, plym, plyo, plyr, plys, Plysu, pnl, pny, polym, polyt, Ppy, psy, pty, ptyr, pwy, py, pyb, pyc, pyl, Qly, Rly, uly, uply, ylp, zly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: paly, pily, play, ploy, poly, yelp.

+2 letters: amply, apply, aptly, blype, glyph, gulpy, haply, imply, kelpy, layup, lippy, loopy, loppy, lumpy, lymph, pally, palmy, palsy, patly, phyla, phyle, platy, playa, plays, ploys, plumy, plyer, polyp, polys, pulpy, pylon, reply, slype, splay, sylph, typal, yelps.

+3 letters: alphyl, blypes, byplay, clumpy, clypei, comply, damply, deeply, deploy, dimply, employ, flappy, flippy, floppy, gloppy, glumpy, glyphs, hyphal, jalopy, jimply, layups, limply, limpsy, lymphs, openly, packly, palely, paltry, parlay, parley, partly, payola, pearly, pebbly, peltry, pentyl, pertly, peyotl, phenyl, phylae, phylar, phylic, phyllo, phylon, phylum, phytol, piddly, pimply, pinkly, plaguy, plashy, platys, playas, played, player, plenty, plisky, ploidy, plotty, ployed, plucky, plummy, plushy, plyers, plying, pokily, poleyn, policy, polity, polypi, polyps, poorly, portly, poshly, primly, propyl, protyl, psylla, puddly, pulley, punily, purely, purply, pusley, pussly, pylons, pylori, pyrola, pyrrol, raptly, replay, ripely, ripply, ropily, rumply, simply, sleepy, slippy, sloppy, slypes, splays, spryly, supply, sylphs, sylphy, triply, yclept, yelped, yelper.