English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language

ply English

Meaning ply meaning

What does ply mean?

ply

— verb (= provide) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance The hostess provided lunch for all the guests — verb use diligently ply your wits! — verb wield vigorously ply an axe — verb join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding ply fabric — verb travel a route regularly Ships ply the waters near the coast — verb apply oneself diligently Ply one's trade — noun (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood — noun one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination three-ply cord four-ply yarn

Synonyms ply synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ply?

ply English » English

fold run strand layer exercise employ use twist stratum plywood plait operate crease work wield utilize tier thickness supply pucker provide lap engage coating cater apply wrinkle work out work at weight wall turn on tuck travel back and forth transact train thrust threads take story storey splice spend sheet sail ruffle ruck row rotate rimple

Conjugation ply conjugation

How do you conjugate ply?

ply · verb

Examples ply examples

How do I use ply in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I just got a bit hot and bothered sorting out my mohair two ply.
Oh, I could kit out an orphanage in white and lemon three ply.
Ply the lash carefully, now.
And let him ply his music.
I'm going to ply my wares down in Texas.
Will I ever get to ply my trade against anyone else?
We ply them with our values, we indoctrinate them with our mediocrity.
She said her fiance had run off with a student cosmetologist who knew how to ply her feminine wiles.
A torturer's apprentice went his merry way to work one day I bend and stretch and ply my trade making people all afraid but business is slack there's no one on the rack but me.
You see, there's always some unhappy little corner of the planet. where we can ply our trade.
Ply the culprit with menthol?
Or double-ply windows.
Ply me not with your honor, man.
This is two-ply glass. Makes the finest kind of insulation.
But they did leave some soundproof double-ply toilet paper.
I bend and stretch and ply my trade making people all afraid but business is slack there's no one on the rack but me.
Now, I'm gonna need some toilet paper, two-ply, white.
And there's this rumor going around that Roxanne is stuffing her bra with two-ply paper towels.
Two-ply.
No, that's one-ply.
It's two-ply.
I'll shove a bit of ply in instead.
Ply Desdemona well and you are sure on't.
There would now be great fleets of interstellar transports being constructed in Earth orbit small, unmanned survey ships liners for immigrants, perhaps great trading ships to ply the spaces between the stars.
As we ply the canals, Collecting Venetian disposables, I feel a sense of superiority over The expensive launches and gondolas.
Well, is it two-ply?
Because if it's two-ply, I'll take one ply.
One ply.
One puny little ply.
I'll take one measly ply!
Look, I don't have a square and I don't have a ply!
A ply?

News and current affairs

Those men and women who learn to make and detonate roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad will ply their trade elsewhere in the region and beyond.
Surely, the fact that the Philippines is notorious for being one of the world's most corrupt countries explains why non-seaworthy vessels with incompetent crews continue to ply their routes.
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA