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• ply someone with — provide someone with (food or drink) in a continuous or insistent way. → ply …   English new terms dictionary

• ply — [[t]pla͟ɪ[/t]] plies, plying, plied 1) VERB If you ply someone with food or drink, you keep giving them more of it. [V n with n] Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn t well, plied her with food... [V n with n] The poor priest was plied with… …   English dictionary

• ply — ply1 noun (plural plies) 1》 a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material. 2》 each of a number of multiple layers or strands of which something is made: [in combination] four ply. Origin ME (in the sense fold ): from Fr. pli, plier to… …   English new terms dictionary

• ply — Ⅰ. ply [1] ► NOUN (pl. plies) 1) a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material. 2) each of a number of multiple layers or strands of which something is made. ORIGIN French pli fold , from Latin plicare to fold . Ⅱ. pl …   English terms dictionary

• ply — ply1 [plaı] v past tense and past participle plied present participle plying third person singular plies [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: apply] 1.) ply your trade literary to work at your business, especially buying and selling things on the street ▪… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• ply — 1 verb past tense and past participle plied 1 (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) literary if a vehicle or boat plies between two places or across a place it makes that journey regularly (+ between/across etc): Small fishing boats plied… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• ply — ply1 plyingly, adv. /pluy/, v., plied, plying. v.t. 1. to work with or at diligently; employ busily; use: to ply the needle. 2. to carry on, practice, or pursue busily or steadily: to ply a trade. 3. to treat with or apply to (something)… …   Universalium

• ply — ply1 [plī] vt. plied, plying [ME plien < OFr plier < L plicare, to fold < IE base * plek , to entwine > FLAX] Now Rare to bend, twist, fold, or mold vi. Obs. to bend or submit n. pl. plies [MFr pli < the v.] 1 …   English World dictionary

• List of EastEnders characters (2006) — The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 2006, by order of first appearance. Contents 1 Deano Wicks 2 Marie Matthews 3 Bradley Branning …   Wikipedia

• Philippine English — is the variety of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino, the standardized dialect of… …   Wikipedia

• run — runnable, adj. runnability, n. /run/, v., ran, run, running, n., adj. v.i. 1. to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground. 2. to move with… …   Universalium