(artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
(colloquial) Short for plywood.
(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
A bent; a direction.
A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
verb
(intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
(intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
(transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
(transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
(transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
(transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
(transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
(transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
