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PRONUNCIATION OF THREE PLY

three ply  [θriː plaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THREE PLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Three ply 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 THREE PLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of three ply in the English dictionary

The definition of three ply in the dictionary is three-stranded knitting wool.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THREE PLY


apply
əˈplaɪ
comply
kəmˈplaɪ
disapply
ˌdɪsəˈplaɪ
duply
djuːˈplaɪ
imply
ɪmˈplaɪ
misapply
ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ
multiply
ˈmʌltɪˌplaɪ
overmultiply
ˌəʊvəˈmʌltɪˌplaɪ
overply
ˌəʊvəˈplaɪ
oversupply
ˈəʊvəˌsəplaɪ
ply
plaɪ
preapply
ˌpriːəˈplaɪ
reapply
ˌriːəˈplaɪ
reply
rɪˈplaɪ
resupply
ˌriːsəˈplaɪ
sextuply
ˈsekstjʊˌplaɪ
supply
səˈplaɪ
undersupply
ˈʌndəsəˈplaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THREE PLY

three
three cheers
three jaw chuck
three o´clock
three quarters
Three Rivers
three Rs
three sheets in the wind
three-act play
three-card monte
three-card trick
three-colour
three-cornered
three-cornered hat
three-D
three-day event
three-day eventer
three-day eventing
three-day measles
three-decker

WORDS THAT END LIKE THREE PLY

amply
blood supply
cheaply
deeply
haply
in short supply
labour supply
limply
mains supply
money supply
panoply
pimply
power supply
purply
sharply
simply
steeply
three-ply
triply
water supply

Synonyms and antonyms of three ply in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «three ply» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THREE PLY

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

Translator English - Chinese

3层
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tres capas
570 millions of speakers

English

three ply
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तीन प्लाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثلاث رقائق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трехслойный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

três camadas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তিনটি প্লাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trois couches
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tiga lapis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dreilagigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

3プライ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

세 겹
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Telung lapis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ba lớp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூன்று பைல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तीन पेल्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Üç kat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tre strati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trzy warstwy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тришаровий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trei straturi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρεις στρώσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drie ply
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tre skikt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tre ply
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of three ply

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THREE PLY»

The term «three ply» is regularly used and occupies the 64.768 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THREE PLY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THREE PLY»

Discover the use of three ply in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to three ply and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Three ply yarn
While Esther and Lotte are growing up in a Yorkshire coalmining community, Deanne is raising her lover's Black daughter in an all-white seaside town.
Caeia March, 1986
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American Anthropology, 1888-1920: Papers from the American ...
(b) Three-ply hraid. — In three-ply braid the weft elements are held in the hand in the same fashion, but instead of being twined simply they are plaited or braided, and as each element passes under one and over the other of the remaining two ...
Frederica De Laguna, Alfred Irving Hallowell, 2002
3
Mechanics and Reliability of Flexible Magnetic Media
Bharat Bhushan. reinforcements allow good control of fiber orientation and distribution. Sheldahl Corp. (Northfield, Minn.) produces a 1 14.3-//m-thick three- ply laminate with two plies of 8.9-//m PET film and one ply of a plain weave PET fabric ...
Bharat Bhushan, 2000
4
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Handspinning
Three-ply There is an interesting difference between a two-ply and a three-ply that makes the three-ply a knitter's best friend: unlike a two-ply, a three-ply has a smooth, round surface. When you use a three-ply for knitting, it does the opposite of ...
Judith MacKenzie McCuin, 2011
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The Principles of Knitting
They are typically made up in two- and three-ply versions from the same size singles, which is convenient for the mill, as well as for the knitter; the two-ply would be suitable for lighter garments, the three-ply suitable for heavier ones. However ...
June Hiatt, 2012
6
Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula
Tanned caribou skin, three-ply braid. Sixteen inches red at each end. No. lA. For otter hauling on snow, twenty feet, four and a half inches long, three ply, one end sixteen inches red, opposite end fifteen inches red. Tanned caribou skin. No. a.
Frank G. Speck, 1977
7
Happiness Economics
It was three ply. This, he now realized, was what the jingle man had meant when he'd said it was a niche market. No other toilet paper was three ply, and given its price, it wouldn't appeal to everybody. Will supposed that he himself fit the ...
Shari Lapeña, 2011
8
FRP Composites in Civil Engineering - CICE 2004: Proceedings ...
400 Bare SteelTube Single-ply FRPJacket Two-ply FRP Jacket Three-ply FRP Jacket 100 200 A x i a l s t r e s s ( N / m m ) 300 0 0 0.015 0.03 Norminal axial strain 0.045 0.06 Figure 7. Axial stress–axial strain curves of bare and FRP- confined ...
R. Seracino, 2006
9
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
In December 1863, 100 pounds of red and 50 pounds each of blue and green three-ply yarns were requested for issue to the Navajos (USNA M234:555). The following year, 100 pounds of scarlet yarn were purchased for Navajos from Alex J.
Joe Ben Wheat, Ann Lane Hedlund, 2003
10
Handcrafts of Society Islands
Holding the ends, then, in his month, he started a three-ply plait of the ordinary style, adding fibers as they were needed, always transferring them from the bunch under his leg to his mouth before working them in. When the plait was long  ...
H.W. Chatterson

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THREE PLY»

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Choosing Receipt Paper: How to Get the Spool Rolling
Another factor to take into consideration when buying receipt roll paper is whether you need one, two, or three ply paper. Depending on the nature of your ... «Point of Sale News, Dec 12»

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