Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A braid, especially of hair.
- noun A pleat.
- transitive verb To braid.
- transitive verb To pleat.
- transitive verb To make by braiding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fold; double in narrow strips: as, to
plait a gown or a sleeve. Seeplaiting and box-plaiting. - To braid; interweave the locks or strands of: as, to
plait the hair. - To mat; felt.
- To twist; twine.
- noun A flattened gather or fold; an over-lapping fold made by doubling cloth or some similar fabric in narrow strips upon itself.
- noun A braid, as of hair, straw, etc.
- noun Rope-yarn strands braided into sennit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
- noun A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
- noun (Med.) Same as
Plica . - transitive verb To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat.
- transitive verb To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A flat
fold ; adoubling , as of cloth; apleat ; as, a box plait. - noun A
braid , as of hair or straw; aplat . - verb transitive To
fold ; todouble in narrow folds; topleat ; as, to plait a ruffle. - verb transitive To
interweave the strands or locks of; tobraid ; toplat ; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make by braiding or interlacing
- verb weave into plaits
- noun a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- noun any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In each iteration, the plait is copied, and a transformation is applied.
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The stitch shown in fig. 69, known as plait or Cretan, is commonly seen on Cretan and other Eastern embroideries.
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Now, whoever she was with, there was always one as well, she was never alone now, not in the street, not at home; of this the plait was the sacred symbol.
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Jeanine is about to "plait" or braid Suzy's hair when we get back from town. ill be sure to post pics :
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Here it was that he discovered that her wrists were bound together behind her back with a kind of plait of thongs so intricate that he was quite unable to release them.
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The lively old woman was sitting close against her bit of fire, on her left a small deal table which held her cold potatoes and cold bacon; on her right a tiny window and window-sill whereon lay her coil of "plait" and the simple straw-splitting machine she had just been working.
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-- When the vertical stitches are laid, a kind of plait is formed in the following way.
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"Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à le Palais
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"Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à Thomas
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I smiled when I saw her, one plait loose and the other still held in place with a ribbon, proof of all the mischief in the school bus.
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