different between ply vs plyg
ply
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)
- A layer of material.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- (colloquial) Short for plywood.
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (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)
- (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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
- (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
- A bent; a direction.
References
Further reading
- ply (layer) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ply (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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plyg
English
Noun
plyg (plural plygs)
- Alternative spelling of plig
- Members of the fundamentalist plyg movement are "Mormon" but are not LDS.
- The schoolgirl drew stares from outsiders because of her long pastel dress and upswept hairdo, and her brother once got into a fistfight with a group of Gentile and LDS boys who had been taunting him and his sister, calling them "plygs".
Welsh
Etymology
Back-formation from plygu (“to bend; to fold, to crease”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /pl???/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /pli??/
Noun
plyg m (plural plygion)
- bend, curve
- fold, crease
Derived terms
- plygell (“folder”)
Adjective
plyg (feminine singular plyg, plural plyg, equative cyn blyg, comparative mwy plyg, superlative mwyaf plyg)
- bent
- folded, creased
Derived terms
Verb
plyg
- (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of plygu
Mutation
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