Uttal

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Definitioner

Substantiv

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

Verb

  1. (transitive) to bend; to fold.
  2. (transitive) To work at diligently.
  3. (intransitive) to flex.
  4. (intransitive) To work diligently.
  5. (transitive) To use vigorously.
  6. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
  7. (transitive) To persist in offering.
  8. To press upon; to urge importunately.
  9. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
  10. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

Exempel

  • He plied his ax with bloody results.
  • three-ply cord
  • Go ply thy needle; meddle not.
  • He plies the duke at morning and at night.
  • to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink
  • She plied him with liquor.
  • 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.
  • A steamer plies between certain ports.
  • ply the seven seas
  • two-ply toilet paper
  • 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 trade as carpenter for forty-three years.
  • Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply.
  • The willow plied, and gave way to the gust.
  • 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.
  • He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticippliedImperfektplied
PresensparticipplyingPluralplies
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