Pliest vs Sliest - What's the difference?
pliest | sliest |
(archaic) (ply)
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:
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* 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.
(sly)
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Slyly.
As a verb pliest
is archaic second-person singular of ply.As an adjective sliest is
superlative of sly.pliest
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Verb
(head)ply
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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.