ply

IPA: pɫˈaɪ

A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
(artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
A bent; a direction.
(colloquial) Short for plywood. [(uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.]

(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.
(intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
(transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
(transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
(transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
(transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
(transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
(intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

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