Ply vs Poly - What's the difference?
ply | poly |
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.
polytechnic.
polyethylene (polythene)
(chiefly, computer graphics) polygon
(uncountable) polyester
(chiefly, informal) polyamory
(chiefly, informal) A polyamorous person.
(chiefly, informal) polyamorous
(transitive, video games, roguelikes) To polymorph; to transform by magic.
A whitish woolly plant () of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean.
As nouns the difference between ply and poly
is that ply is a layer of material while poly is polytechnic.As verbs the difference between ply and poly
is that ply is to bend; to fold while poly is to polymorph; to transform by magic.As an adjective poly is
polyamorous.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.
poly
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of various words.Noun
(polys)- a cotton-poly blend
