Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PLAIT

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Definitions of PLAIT

1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
3. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
4. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid

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Examples of Using PLAIT in a Sentence

• A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair.
• When Woodall was five years old, she was sent home from school after cutting off another pupil's plait.
• Spencer believes in the pseudoscience of intelligent design which was criticized by Phil Plait, in Slate as advocating "warmed-over creationism".
• Plait, Phil, "The Milky Way's Secrets: Our galaxy's night-sky spectacle sparked scientific revolutions", Scientific American, vol.
• The stopped plait on this hogback is characterized by a series of small, separated elements with pellet fillers.
• Zygmunt Gloger in his Encyklopedia staropolska mentions that Polish plait was worn as a hair style by some people, regardless of gender, in the Pinsk region and the Masovia region at the beginning of the 19th century.
• But if all must be told, there is to be added that her head reposed against the broad and comfortable chest of a tall red-and-yellow man, and that his arm was about her, guiding her nimble small fingers that required so many lessons at the intricate six-strand plait.
• In April 2013, Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy blogger) reported that Okuda had included an oblique homage to The West Wing in the Voyager episode "Imperfection", by having Seven of Nine look at a list of Voyager crew who had died, and there listing Commander J.
• Ben Radford, Murray Gell-Mann, Mac King, Daniel Dennett, Nadine Strossen, Carolyn Porco, Christopher Hitchens, Teller, Richard Wiseman, Stanley Krippner, Kari Byron, Daniel Samber, Robert Lancaster, Dave Thomas, David Richards, Ray Beiersdorfer, Michael Shermer, Phil Plait, Adam Savage, James Randi, Julia Sweeney, Jamy Ian Swiss, Jamie Hyneman, Hal Bidlack, Ed Lu, Karen Russell, Ellen Johnson, Paul Provenza, Todd Robbins, Lawrence O'Donnell (cancelled).
• A Polish plait (Koltun in Polish, meaning "Knot", but often referred to in English as an "Elf-Lock") is a lock of matted hair similar to a dreadlock.
• He was also known to disapprove of fasting, and when his court doctor "discovered" that the Polish plait is caused by the linum oil, he succeeded in obtaining a papal bull allowing him to eat dairy products during the fastings.
• Even the Maypole, which many consider a dance is a maneuver based on a set cycle of stepping to plait and unplait the pole.
• The inner lip is smooth, often widely spread over with enamel, with a posterior callosity or blunt dentiform plait.
• The technique used the so-called "putcher" basket traditionally made from hazel rods and withy (willow) plait, set out against the tides in huge wooden "ranks".
• The livestream is hosted by the Greens and other YouTube personalities, including Destin Sandlin and Phil Plait.
• The proposed definition was criticised as ambiguous: Astronomer Phil Plait and NCSE writer Nick Matzke both wrote about why they thought the definition was not, in general, a good one.
• This early art practice includes wood carvings, petroglyphs, kākau (Hawaiian tattooing), kapa (barkcloth; called kapa in Hawaiian, and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific), kapa kilohana (decorated barkcloth), ipu pā wehe (decorated gourds), kāhili (featherwork), lauhala weaving (weaving, plait, or braiding leaves), and leiomano (shark-tooth weapon).
• The cramp (double-ended hook, called a Forsthaken, or “forest hook”, in the German blazon, but often called a Wolfsangel, or “wolf’s hook”, in blazons for other German coats of arms that bear this charge) came from the arms borne by the noble family Plait (or Platten), whose ancestral seat was in Platten and who, owing to their holdings in Longuich sometimes called themselves “Plait von Longuich”.
• Grothe succeeded Phil Plait as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) and served in that capacity from January 1, 2010, until September 1, 2014.
• a word borrowed from French, meaning tress, braided, plait or lace, as found in Lady's tresses; orchids in the genus Spiranthes; or a Swiss plaited bread.

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