English Dictionary

ply

/plaɪ/

noun

A layer of material. / A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. / (colloquial) Short for plywood.

The carpenter applied a ply of wood to the surface of the table.

意味（1）

A layer of material.

two-ply toilet paper

意味（2）

A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.

To make the hail rod a rope of straw is the first thing necessary; it must be made of ripe wheat straw, soaked and twisted, plaited with three strand and then with four ply, making twelve strand to the rope.

意味（3）

(colloquial) Short for plywood.

The Standards describe the quality of timber or ply, moisture content, amount of acceptable sapwood, freedom from decay and insect attack, limitation of checks and splits and treatment of resin staining, and the way plugging may be employed to mask defects in ply faces.

意味（4）

(artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) 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.

意味（5）

(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.

You may be ſure, in the ply I was now taking, I had no objection to the propoſal, and was rather a tiptoe for its accompliſhment.