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Plying
(gcide) | Ply \Ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plying.] [OE. plien, F. plier to fold, to bend, fr. L.
plicare; akin to Gr. ?, G. flechten. Cf. Apply, Complex,
Display, Duplicity, Employ, Exploit, Implicate,
Plait, Pliant, Flax.]
1. To bend. [Obs.]
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As men may warm wax with handes plie. --Chaucer.
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2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or
with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately;
as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with
drink.
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And plies him with redoubled strokes --Dryden.
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He plies the duke at morning and at night. --Shak.
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3. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
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Go ply thy needle; meddle not. --Shak.
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4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
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Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply.
--Waller.
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supplying
(mass) | supplying
- napájanie, poskytovanie |
applying
(encz) | applying,upotřebení |
complying
(encz) | complying,vyhovující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
implying
(encz) | implying,zahrnování n: Zdeněk Brož |
multiplying
(encz) | multiplying,násobící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
multiplying effect
(encz) | multiplying effect,multiplikační efekt Mgr. Dita Gálová |
noncomplying
(encz) | noncomplying,nedodržující |
noncomplying purchase
(encz) | noncomplying purchase, |
replying
(encz) | replying,odpovídání n: Zdeněk Brož |
supplying
(encz) | supplying,dodávající adj: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,dodávání n: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,nahrazení n: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,nahrazující adj: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,napájení n: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,poskytování n: Zdeněk Brožsupplying,zásobování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Applying
(gcide) | Apply \Ap*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Applied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Applying.] [OF. aplier, F. appliquer, fr. L. applicare to
join, fix, or attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist
together. See Applicant, Ply.]
1. To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);
-- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply
medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
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He said, and the sword his throat applied. --Dryden.
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2. To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose,
or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to
apply money to the payment of a debt.
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3. To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable,
fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the
case; to apply an epithet to a person.
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Yet God at last
To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. --Milton.
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4. To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with
attention; to attach; to incline.
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Apply thine heart unto instruction. --Prov. xxiii.
12.
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5. To direct or address. [R.]
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Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. --Pope.
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6. To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
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I applied myself to him for help. --Johnson.
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7. To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.]
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She was skillful in applying his "humors." --Sir P.
Sidney.
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8. To visit. [Obs.]
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And he applied each place so fast. --Chapman.
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Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry.
Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.
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complying
(gcide) | complying \complying\ adj.
pr. p. of comply. [Narrower terms: {compliant (vs.
defiant)}]
Syn: obliging, yielding.
[WordNet 1.5]Comply \Com*ply"\ (k[o^]m*pl[imac]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Complied; p. pr. & vb. n. Complying.] [Perh. formed fr.
compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different
origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, suit. See
Compliment, Complete.]
1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt
one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by
with.
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Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law. --Milton.
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They did servilely comply with the people in
worshiping God by sensible images. --Tillotson.
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He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still. --Hudibras.
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2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Complying
(gcide) | complying \complying\ adj.
pr. p. of comply. [Narrower terms: {compliant (vs.
defiant)}]
Syn: obliging, yielding.
[WordNet 1.5]Comply \Com*ply"\ (k[o^]m*pl[imac]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Complied; p. pr. & vb. n. Complying.] [Perh. formed fr.
compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different
origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, suit. See
Compliment, Complete.]
1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt
one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by
with.
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Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law. --Milton.
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They did servilely comply with the people in
worshiping God by sensible images. --Tillotson.
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He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still. --Hudibras.
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2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Implying
(gcide) | Imply \Im*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Implying.] [From the same source as employ. See Employ,
Ply, and cf. Implicate, Apply.]
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in
curls implied." --Chapman.
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2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference,
or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as,
war implies fighting.
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Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious
intention is implied. --Bp.
Sherlock.
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When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . .
the act of hiring implies an obligation and a
promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward
for his services. --Blackstone.
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3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.]
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Whence might this distaste arise?
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If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will.
To which I most imply it. --J. Webster.
Syn: To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote;
signify; betoken. See Involve.
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Misapplying
(gcide) | Misapply \Mis`ap*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misapplied; p. pr.
& vb. n. Misapplying.]
To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply
a name or title; to misapply public money.
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Multiplying
(gcide) | Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr.
& vb. n. Multiplying.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr.
multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add
quantity to.
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Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
--Ames.
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2. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a
certain number of times; to find the product of by
multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number
56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under
Multiplication.
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3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of
alchemy. [Obs.]
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Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
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Multiplying gear
(gcide) | Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr.
& vb. n. Multiplying.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr.
multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add
quantity to.
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Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
--Ames.
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2. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a
certain number of times; to find the product of by
multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number
56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under
Multiplication.
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3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of
alchemy. [Obs.]
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Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
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Multiplying glass
(gcide) | Lens \Lens\ (l[e^]nz), n.; pl. Lenses (-[e^]z). [L. lens a
lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double
convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Cf. Lentil.] (Opt.)
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with
two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one
curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly
or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the
direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or
otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces
are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some
other figure.
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Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown
in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a
plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d
double-convex; e converging concavo-convex, or
converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or
diverging meniscus.
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Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius
equal to six times the other.
Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye.
Fresnel lens (Opt.), a compound lens formed by placing
around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as
to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses,
for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so
called from the inventor.
Multiplying lens or Multiplying glass (Opt.), a lens one
side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up
of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each
of which presents a separate image of the object viewed
through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied.
Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.
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Multiplying lens
(gcide) | Lens \Lens\ (l[e^]nz), n.; pl. Lenses (-[e^]z). [L. lens a
lentil. So named from the resemblance in shape of a double
convex lens to the seed of a lentil. Cf. Lentil.] (Opt.)
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with
two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one
curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly
or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the
direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or
otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces
are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some
other figure.
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Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown
in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a
plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d
double-convex; e converging concavo-convex, or
converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or
diverging meniscus.
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Crossed lens (Opt.), a double-convex lens with one radius
equal to six times the other.
Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye.
Fresnel lens (Opt.), a compound lens formed by placing
around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as
to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses,
for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so
called from the inventor.
Multiplying lens or Multiplying glass (Opt.), a lens one
side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up
of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each
of which presents a separate image of the object viewed
through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied.
Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.
[1913 Webster]Multiply \Mul"ti*ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Multiplied; p. pr.
& vb. n. Multiplying.] [F. multiplier, L. multiplicare, fr.
multiplex manifold. See Multitude, Complex.]
1. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add
quantity to.
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Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
--Ames.
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2. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a
certain number of times; to find the product of by
multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number
56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under
Multiplication.
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3. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of
alchemy. [Obs.]
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Multiplying gear (Mach.), gear for increasing speed.
Multiplying lens. (Opt.) See under Lens.
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Noncomplying
(gcide) | Noncomplying \Non`com*ply"ing\, a.
Neglecting or refusing to comply.
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Replying
(gcide) | Reply \Re*ply"\ (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied
(-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] [OE. replien, OF.
replier, F. r['e]pliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make
a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf.
Replica.]
1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to
answer.
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O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
--Rom. ix. 20.
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2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea.
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3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something
done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a
battery.
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Syn: To answer; respond; rejoin.
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Self-applying
(gcide) | Self-applying \Self`-ap*ply"ing\, a.
Applying to or by one's self.
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Supplying
(gcide) | Supply \Sup*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supplied; p. pr. & vb.
n. Supplying.] [For older supploy, F. suppl['e]er, OF. also
supployer, (assumed) LL. suppletare, from L. supplere,
suppletum; sub under + plere to fill, akin to plenus full.
See Plenty.]
1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted;
to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are
supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an
artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the
thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to
supply soldiers with ammunition.
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2. To serve instead of; to take the place of.
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Burning ships the banished sun supply. --Waller.
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The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply
His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. --Dryden.
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3. To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another
in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have
possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.
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4. To give; to bring or furnish; to provide; as, to supply
money for the war. --Prior.
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Syn: To furnish; provide; administer; minister; contribute;
yield; accommodate.
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Uncomplying
(gcide) | Uncomplying \Uncomplying\
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supplying
(wn) | supplying
n 1: the activity of supplying or providing something [syn:
provision, supply, supplying] |
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