different between manage vs ply

English

Etymology

From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
• (US)
  • (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
  • (no weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?mæn?d?/
• Rhymes: -æn?d?
• Hyphenation: man?age

Verb

manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)

1. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
2. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
3. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

   • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
4. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
6. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
7. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (To handle with skill, wield): bewield

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

manage (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age

     Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
2. (horseriding) Manège.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..

See also

• man
• Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• manage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• manage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Meagan, agname

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plic?re, present active infinitive of plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *ple?- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

Noun

ply (countable and uncountable, plural ply or plies or plys)

1. A layer of material.
2. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
3. (colloquial) Short for plywood.
4. (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
5. (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.

Translations

Derived terms

• plywood

Etymology 2

From Middle English pl?en, pli, plie (“to bend, fold, mould, shape; to be flexible; to be submissive, humble oneself; to compel someone to submit”), from Anglo-Norman plier, plaier, pleier, ploier, and Middle French plier, ployer (“to bend, fold; to be submissive; to compel someone to submit”) (modern French plier, ployer), from Old French ploiier, pleier (“to fold”), from Latin plic?re (“to fold”); see further at etymology 1. The word is cognate with Catalan plegar (“to bend, fold”), Italian piegare (“to bend, fold, fold up”), Old Occitan plegar, plejar, pleyar (“to fold”) (modern Occitan plegar), Spanish plegar (“to fold”).

Verb

ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).

Derived terms

• plier (agent noun)
• pliers

Translations

Etymology 3

From apply; compare Middle English pl?en, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for apl?en, appl?en (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applic?re, present active infinitive of applic? (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.

Verb

ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)

1. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
2. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
3. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
4. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
5. (transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
7. (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

Translations

Noun

ply

1. A bent; a direction.

References

Further reading

• ply (layer) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ply (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia