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What (who) is -ply - definition
FILE FORMAT
.ply; Stanford PLY; PLY; Stanford Triangle Format
-ply
You use -ply after a number to indicate how many pieces are twisted together to make a type of wool, thread, or rope.
You need 3 balls of any 4-ply knitting wool.
COMB in ADJ: ADJ n
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 fold', from L. plicare 'to fold'.
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ply2
¦ verb (plies, plying, plied)
1. work steadily with (a tool).
work steadily at (one's business or trade).
2. (of a vessel or vehicle) travel regularly over a route, typically for commercial purposes.
3. (ply someone with) provide someone with (food or drink) in a continuous or insistent way.
direct (numerous questions) at someone.
Origin
ME: shortening of apply.
ply
(plies, plying, plied)
1.
If you ply someone with food or drink, you keep giving them more of it.
Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food...
VERB: V n with n
2.
If you ply someone with questions, you keep asking them questions.
Giovanni plied him with questions with the intention of prolonging his stay.
VERB: V n with n
3.
If you ply a trade, you do a particular kind of work regularly as your job, especially a kind of work that involves trying to sell goods or services to people outdoors.
...the market traders noisily plying their wares...
It's illegal for unmarked mini-cabs to ply for hire.
VERB: V n, V for n
Wikipedia
PLY (file format)
PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. It was principally designed to store three-dimensional data from 3D scanners. The data storage format supports a relatively simple description of a single object as a list of nominally flat polygons. A variety of properties can be stored, including color and transparency, surface normals, texture coordinates and data confidence values. The format permits one to have different properties for the front and back of a polygon. There are two versions of the file format, one in ASCII, the other in binary.
Examples of use of -ply
1. Fishermen across West Africa ply their trade in pirogues.
2. Dozens of lobbyists ply the market of structural reforms.
3. The trucks ply the wilderness along a tenuous artery.
4. But Abdul continues to ply the family trade regardless.
5. That outer buoy was marking a further channel to ply.