PLY - Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
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Ply (?), v. t.
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As men may warm wax with handes
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2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.
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And
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He
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3. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
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Go
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4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
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Their bloody task, unwearied, still they
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Ply, v. i. 1. To bend; to yield. [Obs.]
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It would rather burst atwo than
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The willow
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2. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.
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Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with
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He was forced to
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The heavy hammers and mallets
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3. (Naut.) To work to windward; to beat.
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Ply, n. [Cf. F.
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2. Bent; turn; direction; bias.
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The late learners can not so well take the
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Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret
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The czar's mind had taken a strange
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