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noun (English)
1. (colloquial) Clipping of plywood.Examples: "The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels."; "The Standards describe the quality of timber or ply, moisture content, amount of acceptable sapwood, freedom from decay and insect attack, limitation of checks and splits and treatment of resin staining, and the way plugging may be employed to mask defects in ply faces."; "Teak-faced ply is about three times the price of any other, so if you need to economise, anything other than teak would be a good choice! Similarly, marine ply is substantially more expensive than exterior ply, so it may be preferable to go with the latter option."abbreviationalt-ofclippingcolloquialcountableuncountable
2. (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.Examples: "He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess."; "Chinook uses an iterative, alpha-beta search with transposition tables and the history heuristic[…]. Under tournament conditions (thirty moves an hour), the program searches to an average minimum depth of nineteen ply (one ply is one move by one player). The search uses selective deepening to extend lines that are tactically or positionally interesting. Consequently, major lines of play are often searched many plies deeper. It is not uncommon for the program to produce analyses that are thirty-ply deep or more."; "Two principal search strategies were (correctly) predicted: Type-A programs that apply "brute force" inspection of every possible position over a fixed number of plys; and Type-B programs that prune potential moves according to some selection function and then examine the significant sets over as many plys as practical and only at those positions reflecting a degree of stability."countableuncountable
3. (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.Examples: "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."Scotlandcountableuncountable
verb (English)
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.Examples: "And now when at length the Vineyard has ſhed its late Leaves, and the cold Northwind ſhook from the Groves their Honours; even then the active Swain extends his Cares to the enſuing Year, and cloſe plys the deſolate forſaken Vine, cutting off the ſuperfluous Roots with Saturn's crooked Hook, and forms it by pruning."obsoletetransitive
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).Examples: "The Oak Upbraided the Willow, that it was Weak and Wavering, and gave way to Every Blaſt. […] Some very little while after This Diſpute, it Blew a Violent Storm. The Willow Ply’d, and gave way to the Guſt, and ſtill recover’d it ſelf again, without receiving any Damage: But the Oak was Stubborn, and choſe rather to Break than Bend."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.Examples: "He plied his trade as carpenter for forty-three years."; "Ply you your work or elſe you are like to ſmart."; "But English Courage growing as they fight, / In danger, noise, and slaughter takes delight, / Their bloody Task, unwearied, still they ply, / Only restrain’d by Death, or Victory: […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.Examples: "He plied his ax with bloody results."; "Why how now Dame, whence growes this inſolence? / Bianca ſtand aſide, poore gyrle ſhe weepes: / Go ply thy Needle; meddle not with her."; "He [a carpenter] feels an additional particle of new life coursing through his veins, and he plys the plane on the following day with additional energy to his own and to his master's satisfaction."transitive
3. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.Examples: "to ply someone with questions or solicitations"; "He plies the Duke at morning and at night, / And doth impeach the freedome of the ſtate / If they deny him iuſtice."transitive
4. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.Examples: "to ply someone with drink"; "[T]he true Gameſters pretended to be ill, and refuſed their Glaſs, while they plied heartily two young Fellows, who were to be afterwards pillaged, as indeed they were without Mercy."; "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."transitive
5. (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.Examples: "to ply the seven seas"; "The steamer plies between several ports on the coast."; "[T]he ſaid corporation ſhall and may be authorized and required to licenſe all ſuch perſon or perſons as ſhall keep or drive any cars, drays or carts, plying for hire within the ſaid town of Wexford,"ambitransitive
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.Examples: "[…] Ere halfe theſe Authors be read, which will ſoon be with plying hard, and dayly, they cannot chooſe but be maſters of any ordinary proſe."; "He was afterwards reduced to great want, and forced to think of plying in the streets as a porter for his livelihood."intransitiveobsolete
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