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ply
- The carpenter plies his art/craft in his workshop.木匠在他的工场里做手艺活儿。
- Wood-carvers were plying their trade [=doing their work] in the town square.木雕艺人们在小镇广场上雕刻作品。
- a street where many artists ply their wares [=sell their goods] on the sidewalk很多艺术家在街边兜售商品的一条街
- She makes a living as a writer, busily plying her pen each day.她以写作为生，每日笔耕不辍。
- Barges plied back and forth along the canal.驳船沿着运河定期往返。
- Two ferries ply between the island and mainland in the summer months.夏天两条渡船在小岛和大陆之间摆渡。
- Trucks ply the highway between the two cities.卡车在两座城市之间的公路上往返运输。
- ships plying the country's northern coast在这个国家北部沿海定期往返的船只
ply for hire/business/trade
British- Taxis ply for hire/business outside the train station.出租车在火车站外拉生意。
- The company is plying for trade in America.公司正在美国拓展生意。
ply with
[phrasal verb]- Someone who is plying you with gifts [=giving you many gifts] probably wants something in return.一个不断送你礼物的人很可能是想从你那儿得到什么回报。
- Waiters plied guests with wine and hors d'oeuvres.服务生不断给客人上酒和开胃小吃。
- He plied me with questions. [=he asked me many questions]他不停地问我问题。
- a single ply of fabric一层面料
- four-ply yarn [=yarn made up of four strands]四股的纱线
- two-ply paper towels两层的厚纸巾
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 24 July 2022 An artist needed both good hand-eye coordination and a relatively calm sea in order to ply his trade. Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 July 2022 The tabletop system enables Tortuga’s strawberry bots to ply their trade by making berries easier to pluck with robotic arms and protecting the robots from direct exposure to the elements. Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 In Phnom Penh’s museum, the skulls are stacked in aquarium tanks: grim toys for hooks to ply free from the rubble. New York Times, 14 July 2022 Some New Yorkers who ply the longest subway route say the city feels unmoored. New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Many Filipinos are increasingly aware that the livelihoods of their country’s fishermen are being threatened by Chinese boats that ply the South China Sea. New York Times, 9 May 2022 The rollout of Lockdown Mode follows several recent triumphs against spyware companies, who for a long time appeared able to ply their trade with impunity. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 7 July 2022 With possession of my email address and the authentic email the owner had sent me in January, TA578 now had the raw materials to ply its trade. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022 Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2022 Nuyarn, in contrast, is a two-ply yarn in which merino fibers are spun around a filament, primarily virgin nylon. Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2022 This simple one-ply car cover comes in a bevy of sizes to fit mid-size sedans, large SUVS, and many in between. Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022 The Dior Maison surfboard is composed of polyester, polyurethane foam, fiberglass, polyethylene and three-ply lime wood. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 July 2022 Two-ply yarn means a thread that is made up of two smaller strands that have been twisted together. Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2022 The district warehouse stores two-ply TP for schools. Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022 Gimmicky marketers use two- or three-ply yarns to double or triple the thread count. Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2022 The masks feature five layers, including a three-ply nanofiber membrane filter, which has been tested by Nelson Labs to provide over 99.9 percent filtration against viruses, bacteria, pollen, air pollution, smoke and other pollutants. Nicole Charky-chami, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Verb (1)
Middle English plien "to put on, around or over, use," aphetic form of aplien, applien "to join, combine, use for a certain purpose, apply"
Noun
borrowed from French pli "fold, pleat, crease," going back to Old French plei, pli "joint in armor, fold," noun derivative from pleier, plier "to fold, bend" — more at ply entry 3
Verb (2)
Middle English plien "to bend, fold, be capable of bending, be flexible, make submissive, be submissive," borrowed from Anglo-French pleier, plaier, ploier, plier "to fold, bend, (intransitive) bend, bow down, sag" (also continental Old French), going back to Latin plicāre "to fold, bend," back-formation from -plicāre in compounds such as applicāre "to bring into contact (with)," complicāre "to fold together," explicāre "to free from folds, straighten," implicāre "to fold about itself, entwine," replicāre "to fold back on itself," formed from a stem *-plec-, probably a variant, without the formative -t-, of the stem of plectere "to plait, twine," going back to Indo-European *pleḱ-t-, whence also Germanic *flehtan- "to braid, plait" (whence Old Saxon & Old High German flehtan "to plait, weave together," Old Icelandic flétta; in nominal derivation Old English flehta "wickerwork," flohtenfōte "web-footed," Gothic flahta "braid"), Old Church Slavic pletǫ, plesti "to weave (intrigues)"; from *pleḱ- alone in Greek plékein "to plait, braid, weave," with nominal derivatives in Greek plokḗ "weaving," plókos "braid, lock," Sanskrit praśna- "turban" and perhaps Avestan ərəzatō.frašna- "having a golden helmet/coat of mail"
Note: Latin plicāre developed regularly to Old French pleier, later ploier (Modern French ployer "to bend, bow"). The parallel medieval French verb plier (Modern French plier "to fold") arose by analogy with verbs such as prier "to ask," from Latin precārī, which had variants with -i- and -ei- depending on where stress fell on inflected forms, leading to generalization of one or the other form throughout the paradigm. In the case of pleier/ploier, the invasive form pli- first appeared under stress and later spread to unstressed forms. Older ploier was never displaced, however, and the maintenance of both forms lead to two independent verbs with slightly different senses. — In addition to forming the base of -plicāre in applicāre (see apply), complicāre (see complicate entry 2), explicāre (see explicate), implicāre (see implicate, imply), replicāre (see replicate entry 1, reply entry 1), the Latin stem *plec- may also be the second element of nominal compounds such as duplic-. duplex "folded double, having two parts" (see duplex entry 1), simplic-, simplex "consisting of one element" (see simple entry 1), etc. Ernout and Meillet (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine) refer to -plicāre as an "intensive" ("un intensif") relative to plectere. Slavic *pletǫ (in the Old Church Slavic form cited above) must go back to *plek-t-, as the root with the palatovelar would result in an unattested *plestǫ. Alternatively, pletǫ could represent *ple-t- and be allied with Germanic *falþan- (see fold entry 1); this is the suggestion of Ernout and Meillet.
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a
Noun
1532, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb (2)
circa 1909, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing ply
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