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plaise

plaise is the obsolete form of plaice.

plaise is the alternative form of please.

Meaning of plaice

Noun

plaice (plural plaice or plaices)

  1. Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
    • Plaice, and flat fish of all kinds, are taken from the jetties at Yarmouth; and, by taking a boat, good sport may be had chopsticking for marckerel, whiting, and haddock, large quantities of these fish being caught here by this popular method.1892, Ernest R. Suffling, The Land of the Broads, Stratford: Benjiman Perry, page 306
    Synonyms:
    plaice-fluke, Dutch plaice
  2. Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
  3. Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
  4. Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
  5. Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)

See all 6 meanings of plaice

Meaning of please

Verb

please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
    • Her presentation pleased the executives.
  2. (ergative, intransitive) To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
    • Just do as you please.
    Synonyms:
    desire, will

See all 7 meanings of please

Forms of plaise

Noun
pluralplaises
Verb
third-person singular presentplaises
present participleplaising
past participleplaised
pastplaised

Questions about plaise

What is plaise the obsolete form of?
Plaise is the obsolete form of plaice.

Words near plaise in the dictionary

  1. plaisances
  2. plaisanteur
  3. plaisanteurs
  4. plaisaunce
  5. plaisaunces
  6. plaise
  7. plaises
  8. Plaisir
  9. Plaisted
  10. Plaisteds
  11. plaister

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plaise (page history and authors); plaice (page history and authors); please (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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