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Meaning of "counterploy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTERPLOY

counterploy  [ˈkaʊntəˌplɔɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTERPLOY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Counterploy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUNTERPLOY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of counterploy in the English dictionary

The definition of counterploy in the dictionary is an opposing or retaliatory ploy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTERPLOY


accloy
əˈklɔɪ
alloy
ˈælɔɪ
cloy
klɔɪ
cloye
klɔɪ
coemploy
ˌkəʊɪmˈplɔɪ
deploy
dɪˈplɔɪ
disemploy
ˌdɪsɪmˈplɔɪ
employ
ɪmˈplɔɪ
kumbaloi
ˌkʊmbəˈlɔɪ
loy
lɔɪ
misemploy
ˌmɪsɪmˈplɔɪ
overcloy
ˌəʊvəˈklɔɪ
permalloy
pɜːmˈælɔɪ
ploy
plɔɪ
redeploy
ˌriːdɪˈplɔɪ
saveloy
ˈsævɪˌlɔɪ
sigloi
ˈsɪɡlɔɪ
superalloy
ˈsuːpərˌælɔɪ
tholoi
ˈθəʊlɔɪ
zircalloy
zɜːkˈælɔɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTERPLOY

counterpetition
counterpicket
counterplan
counterplay
counterplayer
counterplea
counterplead
counterplot
counterplotted
counterplotting
counterpoint
counterpoise
counterpoise bridge
counterpose
counterpower
counterpressure
counterproductive
counterproject
counterproof
counterproposal

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTERPLOY

baby boy
boy
cowboy
destroy
doy
enjoy
fusible alloy
hoy
joy
ladyboy
McCoy
nimonic alloy
oy
playboy
re-employ
Roy
soy
the boy
toy
Troy

Synonyms and antonyms of counterploy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «counterploy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COUNTERPLOY

Find out the translation of counterploy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of counterploy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «counterploy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

counterploy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

counterploy
570 millions of speakers

English

counterploy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

counterploy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

counterploy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

counterploy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

counterploy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

counterploy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

counterploy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kaunter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

counterploy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

counterploy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

counterploy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Counterploy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

counterploy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

counterploy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिमान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

counterploy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

counterploy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

counterploy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

counterploy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

counterploy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

counterploy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

counterploy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

counterploy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

counterploy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of counterploy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERPLOY»

The term «counterploy» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.917 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERPLOY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «counterploy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «counterploy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about counterploy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERPLOY»

Discover the use of counterploy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to counterploy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey ...
... predation may not be as intense as it would be in a two-species predator-prey system, but it has undoubtedly contributed to the evolution of defensive behavior. Ploy. and. Counterploy: Web-Building. Spiders. and. Their. Prey. Several recent ...
David L. Evans, Justin O. Schmidt, 1990
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Insect Ecology: Behavior, Populations and Communities
Becerra, J. X. 1994. Squirt-gun defense in Bursera and the chrysomelid counterploy. Ecology 75:1991–1996. Becerra, J. X. 1997. Insects on plants: macroevolutionary chemical trends in host use. Science 276:253–256. Becerra, J. X. 2003.
Peter W. Price, Robert F. Denno, Micky D. Eubanks, 2011
3
Research on Chrysomelidae 3
Fitossanidade 2: 30—31. Becerra JX (1994) Squirt-gun defense in Barrera and the chrysomelid counterploy. Ecology 75: 1991—1996. doi: 10.2307/1941603 Becerra JX (1997) Insects on plants: macroevolutionary chemical trends in host use.
Pierre Jolivet, Jorge Santiago-Blay, Michael Schmitt, 2011
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The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters
Another recently discovered female counterploy is the provision of low-energy ( un- yolked) dummy eggs in the male mouth-brooding cardinalfish Apogon lineatus (Kume et al., 2002). In this species, in which males disproportionately ...
Larry G. Allen, Michael H. Horn, 2006
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Functions of Plant Secondary Metabolites and Their ...
Baldwin. I. (1994) Chemical changes rapidly induced by folivory. in Insect Plant Interactions (ed. E.A. Bernays), CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 1-23. Becerra. J.X. ( 1994) Squirt-gun defense in Bursera and the chrysomelid counterploy. Evolution  ...
Michael Wink, 1999
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Annual Plant Reviews, Functions and Biotechnology of Plant ...
Becerra, J.X. (1994) Squirt-gun defense in Bursera and the chrysomelid counterploy. Evolution, 75, 1991–6. Bernays, E.A. and Chapman, R.F. (1994) Host-Plant Selection by Phytophagous Insects. Chapman & Hall, New York, p. 312. Blum ...
Michael Wink, 2010
7
Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of ...
Majority Rule One clever counterploy to this Federalist rejoinder would try to read the various state amendment clauses not as excluding, but as implementing— exclusively!—the People's right to alter or abolish. But this clever counterploy fails .
Sanford Levinson, 1995
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With a Tangled Skein
1%? COUNTERPLOY. “We needed help on the last one,” Niobe said. “Surely we' ll need it on this one too!” “Who can help us with a Satanist?” Atropos asked. “My guess would be Gaea. She's generally considered to be the strongest of the ...
Piers Anthony, 2008
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
The obvious counterploy would evolve: individuals would give up immediately when an opponent raised his hackles. But now, liars might start to evolve. Individuals who really had no intention of going on for a long time would raise their ...
Richard Dawkins, 2006
10
The Process of Divorce: Helping Couples Negotiate Settlements
That is a counterploy to the omnipotence fantasy which we're apt to have. The therapist's impartiality may be protected not only behaviorally— that is, by what he or she says during therapy—but also structurally—by therapist decisions about ...
Kenneth Kressel, 1997

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERPLOY»

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The Russian-Chinese geopolitical game
... think of this argument as simply the counterploy of those who understand the game that Russia and China are playing and are attempting to ... «Al Jazeera America, Jun 14»

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