plier

Thân thiện

A tailor uses a plier to remove a loose button from a shirt.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who works at or carries on a particular trade or occupation: A "plier" is someone who engages in a specific skilled job or business, often with diligence or regularity.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • He was a skilled plier of the carpenter's trade. (He was a skilled practitioner of carpentry.)
  • The market was full of pliers of various crafts. (The market was full of people practicing various crafts.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a somewhat formal or literary context to emphasize the active, diligent practice of a craft or profession. It is less common in everyday speech than synonyms like "worker" or "practitioner."

Variants and Related Words

• Ply (verb): To work diligently at a trade; to engage in busily.
  • She plies her needle with great skill. (She works with her needle very skillfully.)
• Plying (noun/gerund): The act of working at a trade.
  • The plying of his trade kept him busy. (Working at his trade kept him busy.)

Synonyms

• Practitioner: A person actively engaged in a profession or occupation.
• Artisan: A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
• Tradesperson: A person engaged in a trade.

Notes

• Important Distinction: The word "plier" is a homograph. This entry defines "plier" as a person (noun). It is distinct from the more common tool "pliers" (always plural in form), which is a gripping tool with two hinged arms. The two words are unrelated in meaning and etymology.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who plies a trade

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