Betydelse av ply på svenska

• 0 to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things:

  • Fishermen in small boats ply their trade up and down the coast.

  • Dealers are openly plying drugs in school playgrounds.

  • The market traders were loudly plying their wares.

  • UK There are never any taxis plying for trade/hire in our area.

  • I noticed a couple of prostitutes plying for business on the corner.

• 1 When a boat, train, bus, etc. plies a particular route, it makes that journey regularly:

  • High-speed trains regularly ply between Paris and Lyons.

  • This airline has been plying the transatlantic route for many years.

• 2 the particular number of threads from which wool, rope, etc. is made, used as a measure of its thickness:

  • six balls of four-ply (wool)

  • What ply do you need for that knitting pattern?

  • Will three-ply (= woolmade from three layers stuck together) be strong enough for making a shelf?

• 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:

  • two-ply facial tissue

• 4 to work at something regularly:

  • New buses plied the city's bus routes this week.

  • Extreme-sports athletes ply their craft (= their skill or job) in especially difficult conditions.

• 5 to travel over distances regularly by boat or other form of transport:

  • [ T ] Large numbers of vessels plied the waters between New York and Cape Hatteras.

• 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:

  • London's formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly over plying for hire on the capital's streets.

• 9 to do your job:

  • Having worked as a government lawyer for 15 years, he is departing for the private sector to ply his trade as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn.