0 to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things:
1 When a boat, train, bus, etc. plies a particular route, it makes that journey regularly:
2 the particular number of threads from which wool, rope, etc. is made, used as a measure of its thickness:
3 a layer of something such as wood or paper, or a thread that is wrapped with other threads to form yarn (= wool cord) or rope:
5 to travel over distances regularly by boat or other form of transport:
6 to sell something:
ply (your) wares Companies should be accountable for the wares that they ply.
7 to make a journey regularly:
There are fears about the safety of some of the ageing vessels that ply Aegean waters.
ply between sth At present, big cargo ships plying between the east and west coasts of India have to circumnavigate Sri Lanka.
The airline recently founded a new operator to ply long-haul routes to China and Britain starting in July.
8 to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place:
The classrooms are divided by an ambitious and rather heavy movable ply wall, emphasizing one aspect of the nature/technology theme.
Sometimes transportation is not available simply because drivers and owners of vehicles refuse to ply particular routes for fear of damage to their vehicles.
In the rainy season in particular, potholes, floods, swamps and filth make it extremely difficult for cars and trucks to ply the roads.
Carrying ply fabric so that it is thinner includes holding; it's thus more than fabrics of comparable comprehensive.
The impact of smoking ply offsets the reduction in levels of acetylcholine acting at all sites.
The more you know the inherently safer it is. ply from a study of self-stimulation circuitry and motivations such as feeding and drinking.
They plied a highly personalised and semi-authoritarian regime with substantial resources.
A duct space is formed on site between deep ply-faced beams.
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