Folded vs Ply - What's the difference?
folded | ply |
(fold)
To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
To become folded; to form folds.
(informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Chapter 21
To give way on a point or in an argument.
(poker) To withdraw from betting.
(cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
(business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
* Shakespeare
An act of folding.
A bend or crease.
* Francis Bacon
* J. D. Dana
Any correct move in origami.
A group of sheep or goats.
A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
(newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold .
(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold .
(geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
(computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
* Shakespeare
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
* Milton
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (figuratively) Home, family.
(religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
(obsolete) A boundary or limit.
(dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
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A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
(colloquial) Plywood.
(artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made by one of the players.
State, condition.
* 1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin 1985, p. 66:
to .
* L'Estrange
to .
To ly.
* Waller
To work diligently.
* Milton
* Addison
To vigorously.
To ly.
To in offering.
* 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
To press upon; to urge importunately.
* Shakespeare
To employ diligently; to use steadily.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) To work to windward; to beat.
As verbs the difference between folded and ply
is that folded is (fold) while ply is to or ply can be to ly.As a noun ply is
a layer of material.folded
English
Verb
(head)fold
English
(wikipedia fold)Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) falda (Danish folde).Verb
- If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
- Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
- The chair folded under his enormous weight.
- He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
- With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded .
- Fold the egg whites into the batter.
- The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
- He folded his arms in defiance.
- Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
Synonyms
* bend, crease * (fall over) fall over * (give way on a point or in an argument) concede, give in, give way, yieldAntonyms
* unfoldDerived terms
* foldable * foldaway * foldboat * folder * folding money * foldover * fold-downNoun
(en noun)- mummies shrouded in a number of folds of linen
- Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
- Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold .
- Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold , Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.
Synonyms
* (act of folding) bending, creasing. * (bend or crease) bend, crease. * * (correct move in origami)Derived terms
* above the fold * below the foldEtymology 2
From (etyl) fold, fald, from (etyl) fald, .Noun
(en noun)- Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold .
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- John , X, 16 : "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
- (Creech)
Synonyms
* enclosure * pen * penfold, pinfoldEtymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)ply
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(plies)- He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.
- 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.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , see Etymololgy 1.Verb
- The willow plied , and gave way to the gust.
Derived terms
* plier (agent noun) * pliersEtymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
- He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
- Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply .
- Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily).
- He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter.
- He plied his ax with bloody results.
- ply the seven seas
- A steamer plies between certain ports.
- Esther began to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
- She plied him with liquor.
- to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink
- He plies the duke at morning and at night.
- Go ply thy needle; meddle not.