Plying can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| ply - travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast" | ||
| ply - apply oneself diligently; "Ply one's trade" | ||
| ply - use diligently; "ply your wits!" | ||
| ply - wield vigorously; "ply an axe" | ||
| ply - join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding; "ply fabric" | ||
| ply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
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| 1. | verb | He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts. | |
| 2. | verb | Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. | |
| 3. | verb | Ships ply the waters near the coast. | |
| 4. | verb | Ply one's trade. | |
| 5. | verb | Ply your wits! | |
| 6. | verb | Ply an axe. | |
| 7. | verb | Ply fabric. | |
| 8. | verb | He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst. | |
| 9. | verb | Craig remembered seeing indigenous San bushmen ply their tracking skills in southern Africa’s Central Kalahari Desert 20 years earlier. | |
| 10. | verb | He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst. | |
| 11. | verb | Craig remembered seeing indigenous San bushmen ply their tracking skills in southern Africa’s Central Kalahari Desert 20 years earlier. | |
| 12. | noun | Three-ply cord. | |
| 13. | noun | Four-ply yarn. |
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| verb | |
| He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts. | |
| Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. | |
| Ships ply the waters near the coast. |
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| Ply one's trade. |
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| Ply your wits! |
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| Ply an axe. |
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| Ply fabric. |
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| He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst. | |
| Craig remembered seeing indigenous San bushmen ply their tracking skills in southern Africa’s Central Kalahari Desert 20 years earlier. | |
| He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst. | |
| Craig remembered seeing indigenous San bushmen ply their tracking skills in southern Africa’s Central Kalahari Desert 20 years earlier. | |
| noun | |
| Three-ply cord. |
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| Four-ply yarn. |
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