(n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
(n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
(v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
(v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing an open denim shirt, with her hair pulled into two plaits, she looks like the rebel she has always been.
(2) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
(3) Investigation on fixation of muscular tendons to the skeleton has demonstrated that in some cases tendinous filaments plait into the periosteum and terminate in it, while in other cases not all the tendinous filaments terminate at the level of the periosteum, but some of them penetrate into the bone.
(4) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
(5) As I had very long hair in plaits, I would roll them up into two buns and play Leia .
(6) The census shows hundreds of different occupational titles for women, including married women working in agriculture, artificial flower-making, chemical working, cigar-making, warehouse supervising, the lithograph trade, meat preserving, straw plaiting, manufacturing of food and drink, printing, rabbit fur pulling and even medical galvanising.
(7) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
(8) It was made of a shield of plaited material strapped to the animal's body to "cover the genital parts without interfering with the animal's excretions".
(9) Around the world, hair plaited in unusual ways, we poured our glasses of wine and settled in for the opening episode of season four.
(10) Her mother carefully undid Liang Jieyun's plaits, combed out the strands and pinned them into a bun.
(11) Girl in Bath, the nude teenager crouching in the bath tub, in a pose both homely and potentially erotic; Hair Combing, the girl standing, body plumply outlined against the long cascade of hair; The Plait, which catches the moment when the daughter is almost a woman but not quite.
(12) "As an oral poet, he has a different way of putting clauses together: where a literary poet would strap them all to one finite verb, and make a line that's all plaited and twisted and controlled, an oral poet will grow the clauses out of each other.
(13) This is achieved by providing the pumping assembly with articulated lock bolts and locating grips diametrically on the faceplate of the pump over which, to temporarily fix the cover with distributing valves and the pump's diaphragms, a rubber plait is hooked on.
(14) Implants of carbon fibre, made by plaiting a tow of 10,000 filaments of Grafil type HT-S, were used to treat strains and ruptures of digital flexor tendons in 46 horses.
(15) The longitudinal fibrils do not run only parallel but also cross each other forming spirals (plaits).
(16) Hamleys dropped the egregiously prescriptive pink and blue colour scheme; the beauty parlour remains – and why the hell not when you can rinse a tenner out of parents for a French plait while educating girls in the idea that "pampering" is an end in itself?
(17) "My best moment was the plaited loaf in week three, because everything went so well.
(18) The established religion and the state are tightly plaited together.
(19) 8.40pm BST I've only just noticed Mel's special plaits for the final.
(20) And, in the same breath, she talks about Deepak Chopra's concept of synchrodestiny (there is a new age strand to her plait of enthusiasms).
Plight
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
() imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
(v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(3) A prominent gay rights activist, Nikolai Alexeev, said although Fry's letter "won't change anything" at the Olympics, it would help raise awareness of the plight of LGBT Russians.
(4) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(5) Persistent media highlighting of the plight of patients suffering from severe fatigue of unknown cause (postviral fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis) has at last been matched by professional attention.
(6) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
(7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) Victims of the Great Depression were there in plain sight, the unemployed queuing up in breadlines, their plight unambiguous.
(10) Qatar had vowed to reform the industry after the Guardian exposed the desperate plight of many of its migrant workers last year.
(11) I keep going and going and going.” 17) Being ahead of the curve July 2008: Two years before the Qatar vote, addresses the plight of exploited workers denied liveable pay and conditions.
(12) The legitimate focus on the plight of refugees on Nauru has overshadowed the impact of Australian policies on that island nation, a closely integrated society of just 10,000 people.
(13) Last week the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), which represents expat campaigning groups in Australia and Canada, launched its new Pension Justice website , aimed at highlighting their plight.
(14) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(15) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
(16) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
(17) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
(18) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
(19) As for Aloisi's plight, Popovic declined to offer advice.
(20) Restrictions on local news agencies and newspapers seem to have eased recently with a few going as far as breaking the taboo on reporting the plight of political prisoners or the house arrests of opposition leaders.