plieth English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (ply)
ply English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
Noun
( plies)
A layer of material.
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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.
- He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.
State, condition.
* 1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin 1985, p. 66:
- 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
to .
* L'Estrange
- The willow plied , and gave way to the gust.
to .
Derived terms
* plier (agent noun)
* pliers
Etymology 3
From (etyl)
Verb
To ly.
- He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
* Waller
- Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply .
To work diligently.
* Milton
- Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily).
* Addison
- He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter.
To vigorously.
- He plied his ax with bloody results.
To ly.
- ply the seven seas
- A steamer plies between certain ports.
To in offering.
* 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
- 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 press upon; to urge importunately.
- to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink
* Shakespeare
- He plies the duke at morning and at night.
To employ diligently; to use steadily.
* Shakespeare
- Go ply thy needle; meddle not.
(nautical) To work to windward; to beat.
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lieth English
Verb
( head)
(lie)
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- Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
* Francis Bacon
- The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge.
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