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- DictionaryPly/plī/
noun
- 1. a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material: "tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination"
- 2. short for plywood
The meaning of PLY is to use or wield diligently. How to use ply in a sentence.
PLY definition: 1. to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things: 2…. Learn more.
Ply definition: to work with or at diligently; employ busily; use. See examples of PLY used in a sentence.
to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things: Fishermen in small boats ply their trade up and down the coast. Dealers are openly plying drugs in school playgrounds. The market traders were loudly plying their wares. ply for business, trade, etc. mainly UK.
Ply means to work steadily at something. If you've got a lemonade stand and you're busy perfecting your recipe and seeking out customers, you're doing a good job of plying your trade. A ship that regularly travels a particular route plies that route.
to carry on, pursue, or work at (a job, trade, etc) 2. to manipulate or wield (a tool) 3. to sell (goods, wares, etc), esp at a regular place. 4. (usually foll by with) to provide (with) or subject (to) repeatedly or persistently. he plied us with drink the whole evening. to ply a horse with a whip.
1. A layer, as of doubled-over cloth or of paperboard. 2. One of the sheets of wood glued together to form plywood. 3. A layer of rubber-coated fabric, often of nylon or polyester cords, forming the body of an automobile tire. 4. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn, rope, or thread.
Definitions of 'ply' 1. If you ply someone with food or drink, you keep giving them more of it. [...] 2. If you ply someone with questions, you keep asking them questions. [...] 3. If you ply a trade, you do a particular kind of work regularly as your job, especially a kind of work that involves trying to sell goods or services to people outdoors.
ply. [intransitive, transitive] (literary) (of ships, buses, etc.) to travel regularly along a particular route or between two particular places + adv./prep. Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island. The train plies twice a day between Paris and Madrid.
To do work with; wield or use (a tool, faculty, etc.), esp. with energy. To engage in diligently; practice. Plied the carpenter's trade. One of the sheets of wood glued together to form plywood. A layer of rubber-coated fabric, often of nylon or polyester cords, forming the body of an automobile tire.
