Plieth vs Flieth - What's the difference?
plieth | flieth |
(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:
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.
(archaic) (fly)
* , Deuteronomy 4:17
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between plieth and flieth
is that plieth is (archaic) (ply) while flieth is (archaic) (fly).As verbs the difference between plieth and flieth
is that plieth is (archaic) (ply) while flieth is (archaic) (fly).plieth
English
Verb
(head)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.
flieth
English
Verb
(head)- The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,