ply

About 1.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Bolyu.
2. noun A layer of material.

   two-ply toilet paper

3. noun A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
4. noun Clipping of plywood.
5. noun In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.

   He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.

6. noun A condition, a state.
7. verb To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
8. verb To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).

Similar words

cater run supply provide layer cover fold tuck thickness strata

Often followed by

the their between his of to on and her

Word family

plied plies plying