different between plies vs boucle

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

plies

1. plural of ply

Verb

plies

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ply

Etymology 2

Noun

plies

1. plural of plie

Anagrams

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Piles, Siple, piles, slipe, spiel, spile

French

Verb

plies

1. second-person singular present indicative of plier
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of plier

Anagrams

• piles, pilés

English

Etymology

From French boucler (“to buckle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

Noun

boucle (countable and uncountable, plural boucles)

1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

Noun

boucle f (plural boucles)

1. loop (line returning to its origin)
2. (jewellery) earring
3. buckle (of a belt, etc.)
4. curl (of hair)
5. ringlet
6. (graph theory) loop
7. (figure skating) loop jump
8. (aviation) loop the loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

Derived terms

• boucle infinie
• boucler la boucle
• Grande Boucle
• boucle d'oreille
• en boucle

Related terms

• boucler
• bouclette

Descendants

• Catalan: bucle
• Galician: bucle
• Portuguese: bucle
• ? Romanian: bucl?
• Russian: ?????? (búklja)
• Spanish: bucle

Further reading

• “boucle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin buccula, diminutive of bucca (“cheek”). Compare Anglo-Norman bucle.

Noun

boucle f (oblique plural boucles, nominative singular boucle, nominative plural boucles)

1. buckle

Descendants

• French: boucle
• Norman: boucl'ye (Jersey)
• ? Middle English: bokel
  • English: buckle
  • Yola: boouchel
• ? Middle High German: buckel
  • German: Buckel