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ply
  1. A layer of material.
  2. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
  3. (colloquial) Plywood.
  4. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made by one of the players.
  5. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “This is protected by a cushion formed of a thick ply of elastic rubber.”
      “Public opinion is taking a ply for the introduction of the institute of chaplains or other clergymen in the army.”
plyer
  1. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross.
  2. Alternative spelling of plier
  3. Examples:
    1. “In Monopoly, how much money does each plyer have at the start of the game?”
      “Saugus has more athletic and talented players, which is why Plyer doesn't start, according to Wright.”
      “Allison Plyer, the executive director and chief demographer of The Data Center, a New Orleans-based private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research.”
pliers
  1. A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers.”
      “A little larger than a hero sandwich, it carries a box of flies, a tippet spool, and a pair of pliers.”
      “As you cut the headrail you may want to bend the cut portion out of the way with pliers or a screw driver.”
pliability
  1. The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They first strip the thin cuticle layer from the middle rib of a young palm leaf, then soak the fibers for pliability.”
      “His years at Oxford had been spent teaching where he had witnessed the pliability of young minds.”
      “Is this the unprincipled pliability I detest in the people I put up with at Rome?”
pliableness
pliantness
pliancy
  1. The quality of being pliant.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The pliancy of the wood where a tree was once pruned will differ from that of the rest of the tree.”
      “His pliancy, aristocratic associations, and refined manners suited the new master of France.”
      “To be effective, the work requires a seamlessness and pliancy that could have been at odds with emphatic articulation and step-by-step precision.”
pliers
  1. plural of plier
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In one scene, two homeless men are filmed fighting in a public toilet while another is pictured pulling out his own teeth with pliers.”
      “A little larger than a hero sandwich, it carries a box of flies, a tippet spool, and a pair of pliers.”
      “As you cut the headrail you may want to bend the cut portion out of the way with pliers or a screw driver.”
plier
  1. One who plies.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This is a vintage nutcracker set with two handheld plier type nutcrackers, each five inches in length, and six nutpicks.”
      “The newest plier-tweezer innovation in the industry combines plier handles with antiacid, antimagnetic stainless steel tweezer tips.”
      “A meeting of the plier manufacturers of the country was called and the question was put before them.”
pliabilities
pliancies
plyers
  1. plural of plyer
plies
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