| 单词 | ply |
| 释义 | ply (once / 669 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4nv Ply means to work steadily at something. If you've got a lemonade stand and you're busy perfecting your recipe and seeking out customers, you're doing a good job of plying your trade. A ship that regularly travels a particular route plies that route. When someone offers you food or drink, often in hopes of getting something in return, they're plying you: "If I ply you with cake, will you take my dog for a walk?" The noun ply is very different from the verb, referring to layers or strands. Four-ply yarn is made up of four strands. Plywood is made of many layers of wood glued together. WORD FAMILYply: pliable, plied, plier, plies, plyer, plying+/pliable: pliability, pliably/plier: pliers/plyer: plyers USAGE EXAMPLESFive of those players now ply their trade in the W.N.B.A.: New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) This is pretty much the scenario wherever he plies his craft, Roskelley said. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Roaming musicians ply their trade for tips against a backdrop of restored art nouveau buildings. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1v use diligently ply your wits! Hyper apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose 2v wield vigorously ply an axe Hyper handle, manage, wield manage or wield effectively 3v apply oneself diligently 2Ply one's trade Hyper do, perform get (something) done v travel a route regularly 3Ships ply the waters near the coast Syn|Hyper run black market, run deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor jaunt, travel, trip make a trip for pleasure v give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper cater, provide, supply staff provide with staff drenchforce to drink regale, treatprovide with choice or abundant food or drink boardprovide food and lodging (for) feed, givegive food to feedserve as food for; be the food for dish, dish out, dish up, serve, serve upprovide (usually but not necessarily food) catersupply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets help, servehelp to some food; help with food or drink powersupply the force or power for the functioning of feedprovide as food gratify, indulge, panderyield (to); give satisfaction to underlayprovide with a base, support, lining, or backing fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfyfill or meet a want or need horseprovide with a horse or horses showerprovide abundantly with accommodateprovide with something desired or needed nourish, nurture, sustainprovide with nourishment fix upfind (something or someone) for gutterprovide with gutters humor, humourput into a good mood manprovide with workers dinegive dinner to; host for dinner winetreat to wine alcoholise, alcoholizesubject to the influence of alcohol live in, sleep inlive in the house where one works scavengefeed on carrion or refuse foddergive fodder (to domesticated animals) slop, swillfeed pigs regurgitatefeed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food cornfeed (cattle) with corn malnourish, undernourishprovide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment overfeedfeed excessively spoonfeedfeed with a spoon force-feedfeed someone who will not or cannot eat plankcook and serve on a plank drivecause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling feast, feedgratify spreeengage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping answerbe satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of remountprovide with fresh horses lunchprovide a midday meal for breakfastprovide breakfast for breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nursegive suck to bottlefeedfeed (infants) with a bottle sow one's oats, sow one's wild oatslive promiscuously and self-indulgently appease, quell, stayovercome or allay injectfeed intravenously carrybe able to feed feed on, feed uponbe sustained by allay, assuage, quench, slakesatisfy (thirst) aliment, nourish, nutrifygive nourishment to rangelet eat crop, graze, pasturelet feed in a field or pasture or meadow give transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody 1n one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination three- ply cord four- ply yarn Hyper strand line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable 2n (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood Hyper bed, layer single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance 3v join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding ply fabric Hyper bring together, join cause to become joined or linked |
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