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Word entry · 3 letters

ply

Best crossword clue

"Wood layer"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /plaɪ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted lpyStarts with PEnds with Y3 cluesCommon crossword word
1P2L3Y

Definitions

  1. A layer of material or to work steadily at something.

Word origin

From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plicāre (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

Used in a sentence

  • two-ply toilet paper
  • It is possible to have a very well load balanced partition but with such a high ply that its slowest piece is slower than a not-so-well balanced partition with less ply.
  • The designer critic's staff would come in with, for example, loads of three-ply cashmere. The students weren't even selecting their own fabrics.

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Wood layer3 letters
02Layer3 letters
03Work steadily3 letters

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