Ply vs Drive - What's the difference?
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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.
To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
(intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
To cause animals to flee out of.
To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
To compel (to do something).
To cause to become.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(cricket) To hit the ball with a .
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To move forcefully.
* Dryden
* Prescott
* Tennyson
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, title= To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
* Tennyson
* Sir Philip Sidney
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
* Collier
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
* Dryden
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(senseid)Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
* (Matthew Arnold)
An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 79:
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
A trip made in a motor vehicle.
A driveway.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive , for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
A type of public roadway.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
(computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
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, title= A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
In transitive terms the difference between ply and drive
is that ply is to persist in offering while drive is to convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.In intransitive terms the difference between ply and drive
is that ply is to work diligently while drive is to move forcefully.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.
drive
English
Verb
- to drive sheep out of a field
- A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
- Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
- under cover of the night and a driving tempest
- Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}
- enough to drive one mad
- He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
- The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to drive the country, force the swains away
- (Tomlinson)
Synonyms
* herd * (cause animals to flee out of) * (move something by hitting it with great force) force, push * move, operate * * impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge * (compel) compel, force, oblige, push, require * (cause to become) make, send * (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle) * takeDerived terms
* bedrive * drink and drive * driveable * drive a coach and horses through * drive a hard bargain * drive at * drive-boat * drive-bolt * drive-by * drivee * drive home * drive-in * drive Irish tandem * drive-line * drive off * drive-off * drive-on * * drive out * drive-pipe * driver * drive-screw * drive-shaft * drive-through, drivethrough * drive time * drive to distraction * drive to drink * drive-train * drive-wheel * drive-yourself * driving * fordrive * let driveNoun
(en noun)- The Murdstonian drive in business.
- Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. }}