What's the difference between piled and plied?

Piled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pile
  • (a.) Having a pile or point; pointed.
  • (a.) Having a pile or nap.
  • (a.) Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (2) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
  • (3) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
  • (4) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
  • (5) This is a substantial country, not just a pile of bricks.
  • (6) Then they become increasingly unable to afford the probation fees that are piled on by private companies paid to oversee them, including fees for everything from basic supervision to drug tests.
  • (7) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
  • (8) According to its physical and biochemical properties, poly(L-malate) may alternatively function as a molecular chaperone in nucleosome assembly in the S phase and as both an inhibitor and a stock-piling agent of DNA-polymerase-alpha-primase in the G2 phase and M phase of the plasmodial cell cycle.
  • (9) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (10) In the spare room, there was a pile of CVs aimed at charities to secure this “free labour” imposed by the benefits system.
  • (11) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
  • (12) There are 80,000 bars and restaurants there and they're often piled eight stories high on top of each other.
  • (13) Cards pile on the runs, and here comes Hurdle to get Burnett, about three batters too late.
  • (14) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (15) Rather, it's because because policymakers and administrators have come to treat higher education as a commercial marketplace, rather than a public trust – and stop-gap student loan reforms like those "unveiled" by President Obama this week fail to confront this ethical dilemma underlying the debt pile.
  • (16) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
  • (17) Signs that large companies are ready to start spending some of the cash piles they have been sitting on while smaller firms are prepared to borrow to expand reflect a brighter outlook for sales.
  • (18) Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into GlaxoSmithKline's sales practices, piling further pressure on the drugmaker which is already being investigated by Chinese authorities and elsewhere amid allegations of bribery.
  • (19) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
  • (20) The ONS said UK's debt pile had risen to £1.11tn or 70.7% of GDP.

Plied


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Ply.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Ply

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The human alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor gene (PLI) was mapped by in situ hybridization using a genomic DNA probe which contained exons coding for the signal peptide and a portion of the mature protein.
  • (2) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
  • (3) This lovely coastal route also gives you an excuse to hop on the Skye ferry, which plies its way over the narrows to Kylerhea from the start of this walk.
  • (4) He plied his trade for 25 years on the pages of this newspaper, and for more than half a century on behalf of the BBC.
  • (5) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
  • (6) The trend of compliance as a function of the reinforcement angle is discussed for an angle-ply composite of low compliance constituents, as well as the implications for stress-strain behaviour.
  • (7) Undertreatment for fear of drug toxicity, overtreatment by plying the patient with multiple drugs, and delay in treatment are equally destructive.
  • (8) Group 19 pneumococci all contained ply; the disease-isolated types of 19F and 19A appeared to show a higher specific hemolytic activity and yield than the nonpathogenic types, 19B and 19C.
  • (9) In addition, the periodontal variables of PlI, GI, probing depth and the patient's experience of gingival bleeding were recorded and compared between smoking and non-smoking patients.
  • (10) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the pelY gene disclosed an open reading frame of 1,623 base pairs (PLY).
  • (11) Samson d’Souza and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious on the beach, where she subsequently drowned.
  • (12) Prompted by interest in immunohistochemical reports of prolactin-like immunoreactivity (PLI) in the rat hypothalamus, we investigated and have reported that an immunoreactive and bioactive prolactin-like material can be extracted from the rat hypothalamus.
  • (13) The Plaque Index (PlI), Gingival Index (GI) and Retention Index (RI), the width of the keratinized gingiva, pocket probing depth (PD) and loss of probing attachment (LA) were recorded on four surfaces per tooth in the entire dentition of the subjects.
  • (14) The court heard the group had plied five victims with drink and drugs and “passed them around” for sex.
  • (15) When P2 is further fractioned on a discontinuous sucrose density gradient, approximately 66% of the P2-associated PLI was found in subfractions rich in synaptosomes and poor in myelin and mitochondria.
  • (16) Using a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay for rat prolactin and a standardized procedure for subcellular fractionation of neuronal tissue, we have found that 90% of hypothalamic PLI is particulate-bound with only 10% remaining in the S4 or cytosolic fraction.
  • (17) About the same number of PLI neurons could be detected in the abdominal ganglia of larval and adult flies.
  • (18) The music and the image had been honed down in the interim – the gear to the archetypal indie look and the music to the almost bubblegum sound which they ply today.
  • (19) The proportions of B. gingivalis and T. denticola were significantly related to GI, PlI, BI and PD, those of B. forsythus and W. recta to GI, PlI and BI, E. corrodens to GI and PlI, and F. nucleatum to BI.
  • (20) Email all your questions and answers to knowledge@theguardian.com NEXT WEEK The UK players currently plying their trade at the most obscure overseas clubs.

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