Definitions from Wiktionary (ply)

▸ noun:  A layer of material.
▸ noun:  A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
▸ noun:  (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
▸ noun:  (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
▸ noun:  A bent; a direction.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Short for plywood. [(uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.]

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