Plait

Definition: Plait

Plait

Noun

1. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.

2. Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.

Verb

1. Make by braiding.

2. Weave into plaits; "plait hair".

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

Date "plait" was first used: sometime around 1330. (references)

Synonyms: Plait

Crossing

Net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation.

Mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill; tangle, entangle, ravel; net, knot; dishevel, raddle.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Sale

Phrase: chose qui plait est a demi vendue.

Crosswords: Plait

French (pleases), Manx (clutch-plate, plate).

S'il vous plait, I would like to have the same thing he had. ('Round Midnight; writing credit: David Rayfiel; Bertrand Tavernier)

S'l vous plait (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith)

S'il vous plait (1988)

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

Books

• Les Champs Magnetiques Sil Vous Plait Vo (reference)

• Les\Champs Magnetiques / S'il Vous Plait / Vous M'Oublierez (reference)

• Mind Your Manners, S'il Vous Plait (Kitty in the City) (reference)

• Un sceptique, s'il vous plait (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Pour que papa vienne en permission, s'il vous plait. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pour que papa vienne en permission, s'il vous plait. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Expressions using "plait": Box plait ♦ bun plait ♦ chose qui plait est a demi vendue ♦ plait point ♦ polish plait ♦ repondez sil vous plait ♦ Repondez s'il vous plait ♦ Répondez s'il vous plait ♦ rpondez sil vous plait ♦ Straw plait. Additional references.

Ending with "plait": straw-plait.

Albanian

palë në rrobë, thur gërshet (plat, queue), gërshetoj (braid, entwine, entwist, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, lace, tress, twine, twist, wreathe), gërshet (braid, plat, queue, tail, tress), bishtalec (braid, pigtail, tail), bëj pala. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تضفر, ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, lappet, plica, queue, recess, tuck, wrap), ‏ضفيرة (braid, cue, pigtail, plexor, queue, tress), ‏جديلة (braid, cue, pig tail), ‏جدل (braid, braiding, cue, entwine, intertwine, interweaving, mat, plaiting, twine, twining, twist, wreathe, writhe), ‏الجديلة, ‏ثنية (flection, fold, goffer, pleat, ply, ruck, shirring, tuck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сплитам (braid, intertwine, knit together, lace, mat, tangle, twine, twist, wreathe), плисе (doubling, gauffer, goffer, pleat), плисирам (kilt, pleat), плитка (braid, cue, pigtail, plat, queue, rope). (various references)

Chinese 

辮子 (a mistake or shortcoming that may be exploited by an opponent, braid, handle, pigtail), 褶 (Pleat), 編製 (authorized strength, braid, draw up, establishment, weave, work out), 編�" (braid, knit, weave), 編 (arrange, compile, compose, edit, fabricate, group, organize, weave, write). (various references)

Czech

pletenec (braid, string), plést (hand-knit, knit, twist, weave, wreathe), záhyb (crease, Crinkle, fold, gather, meander, ply, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), splétat (splice), skládat v záhyby, cop (braid). (various references)

Danish

plica (fold, plica), fold (fold, furrow, wrinkle), flettet snor (braid), flette (braid, braiding, intercalate, plaiting, to plait). (various references)

Dutch

vlechten (braid, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Esperanto

plekti (braid, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Faeroese

snúðra (braid, contort, twine, twist, wreathe), flætta (braid, twine, wreathe), binda (bind, braid, bridle, check, connect, join, knit, restrain, tie, tie up, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن گیسو, موی بافته , چین دارکردن (Crease), چین (Chitlings, Crease, Crimp, Fold, Offset, Pleat, Puchery, Wrinkle), گیس بافته (Pigtail), تاه زدن (Fold, Turquoise), تاه (Plica, Ply, Tuck). (various references)

Finnish

palmikoida (braid). (various references)

French

tresser (to plait), natter, tresse, tisser. (various references)

German

flechten (braid, cane, lichens, make, tresses, twine, wattle, weave, wreathe), Zopf (braid, pigtail, plaited loaf, queue, treetop), schlingen (bolt one's food, braid, brandish, fling, gobble, gulp, loop, loops, noose, nooses, swallow, sway, swing, tie, twine, wave, wave about, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Greek 

πτυχή (crease, crumple, fold, ply, pucker, rimple, ruck, ruffle, tuck), κοτσίδα (braid, pigtail, tress), πλέκω (braid, crochet, intertwine, knit, plat, raddle, strand), πλεξίδα (braid, cue, pigtail, plat, queue). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקפל (bending, folding), מחלפ�" (braid, lock), לסרו�' (interlace, knit, lace, make a net), קליע�" (basketwork, network, plaiting, twist, weaving), קפל (fold, pleat, tuck), קפש, בלורית (braid, crest, forelock, quiff, tuft), צמ�" (braid, lock, tress). (various references)

Hungarian

pliszé (plaiting, pleat, pleating), redõz (corrugate), ránc ruhán, hajtás ruhán, hajfonat (braid, cue, rope of hair, tress), copf (braid, cue, pigtail, tail of hair), berak (embed, inlay, stevedore, to damascene, to inlay, to kilt, to pleat, to stevedore, to stow, to tuck away, tuck). (various references)

Indonesian

menganyam (pleat), melipat (enfold, fold, pleat), anyaman (cane work, plaited mats), anyam. (various references)

Italian

treccia (braid, pigtail, twist), piega (bends, crease, Crinkle, fold, inclines, pleat, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

真�"�編み , 真�"� (braid), プラント輸出 (angrily, export of manufacturing plant, in a huff, in anger, planner, planning, pleat, pleated skirt, pre-, pre-amplifier, preference, prefix, preprocessor, prerecording, preset, pretty, pretty-print, priest, prima ballerina, prima donna, primitive, primitive art, prince, Prince Edward Island, prince melon, princess, princess coat, principle, printer, prism, pudding). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プリーツ (pleat), さな� あみ, さな� (braid). (various references)

Manx

filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap), fee (braid, interlace, intertwine, knit, mat; ravens, weave, wreathe), claightey (braid, plaiting), claight (braid). (various references)

Papiamen

vlèktu (braid, twine, wreathe), vlèkt (braid, twine, wreathe), flèktu (braid, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Pig Latin

aitplay.(various references)

Portuguese

entrançar (braid, mat, plat, pleach, queue, splice, twine, twist, wreathe), trançar (twine, weave, wreathe), prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle). (various references)

Romanian

pleatã (braid), face falduri la, cosiţã (braid, pigtail, tress), împleti (braid, criss cross, entwine, entwist, interlace, intertwine, interweave, knit, mat, mesh, plash, twine, weave, work, wreathe). (various references)

Russian 

складка (corrugation, crease, fold, lappet, plica, plication, ply, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), сплести (weave), коса (braid, foreland, pigtail, queue, scythe, tress), закладывать складки, заплетать коса. (various references)

Scottish

dual (a lock of hair, braid, due, hereditary right, hereditary right or disposition, lock of hair, plait or fold, ringlet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pletenica (braid, splice, twist), uplitati, nabor (crease, crinkle, fold, frill, goffer, pleat, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), nabirati (corrugate, crimp, pucker, ruffle, shirr), kika (pigtail, ponytail, queue). (various references)

Spanish

trenza (braid, pigtail, queue, strand, tail, tress, twist), trenzar (braid, twist, weave, wreathe), pliegue (crease, fold, kink, pleat, plication, pucker, tuck). (various references)

Sranan

frekti (braid, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Swedish

fläta (braid, rope, tail, twine, twist, wreathe), vecka (corrugate, crease, crimp, Crinkle, enfold, fold, frill, frounce, pleat, ruck, ruffle, sennight, shirr, week), plissera (pleat). (various references)

Turkish

plise (plaiting, pleat, ply), pli yapmak (crease, flute, kilt, pleat), pli (crease, flute, fluting, fold, pleat, tuck), kıvrım yapmak, kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), örmek (bond, braid, build, entwist, hand-knit, knit, spin, twine, weave), örgü (braid, braiding, hand-knit, hand-knitted, knit, knitted, knitting, plat). (various references)

Turkmen 

saз цrьmi (braid), зyrmaюmak (braid). (various references)

Ukrainian

складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, pleat, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), коса (back-hair, braid, neck, queue, scythe, tress), гофрування (gauffer, gauffering, goffer, goffering), закладати складки, заплітати (braid), плетіння (needlecraft, netting, network, weaving, wickerwork). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dây tết (plat), dây bện (plat), đuôi sam (pigtail, plat). (various references)

Welsh

plethu (braid, fold, weave), pleth (braid), plet, eilio (alternate, second, sing, weave). (various references)

crine, crinem, crines, crinibus, crinis, plectantur, plectas, plectendum, plectentes, plectere, plicare, texant, texebant, texente, texi, texit, texo, texta, textura, texturam, texuerunt, vieo. (various references)

pleir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "plait": plaited, plaiter, plaiters, plaiting, plaitings, plaits. (additional references)

Words ending with "plait": unplait. (additional references)

Words containing "plait": unplaited, unplaiting, unplaits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Plait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apliavit, blait, Blawith, pahit, pait, Paita, paleit, palit, Palito, palpit, Pilai, pilat, Pilatii, plaet, plaft, plai, plaig, plair, plais, plati, platp, plau, playeth, playist, Playto, pleai, pleet, plia, pliat, pliate, pliet, plift, plit, ploet, ploit, plpit, pluit, plumit, Plumito, prait, Prakit, pylai, Xpelair. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alit, lati, lipa, pail, pial, pita, plat, tail, tali.

-2 letters: ail, ait, alp, alt, apt, lap, lat, lip, lit, pal, pat, pia, pit, tap, til, tip.

-3 letters: ai, al, at, it, la, li, pa, pi, ta, ti.

+1 letter: aplite, pastil, plaint, plaits, pliant, spital.

+2 letters: aplites, aplitic, apostil, capital, capitol, coalpit, fleapit, galipot, haplite, implant, inaptly, nuptial, optical, optimal, paliest, palmist, pantile, partial, pastils, philtra, pigtail, pileate, pintail, pitfall, pivotal, plaints, plaited, plaiter, plastic, plastid, platier, platies, platina, plating, platypi, plaudit, plicate, ptyalin, spatial, spitals, taliped, talipes, talipot, tilapia, topical, topsail, typical, unplait.