practice
/ˈpɹæktɪs/ noun
Also a form of practise
Forms practices practicing practiced practise
- noun Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. “He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.”
- noun An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition. “Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.”
- noun The state of being proficient due to repetition of a skill. “I was rusty, but after a few months, I got back into practice.”
- noun (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- noun Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- noun (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- noun (religion) The observance of religious duties that an spiritual institution requires of its members.
- noun (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. “This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.”
Synonyms
practicing drill exercise training rehearsing rehearsal dry run trial workout general practice custom habit pattern routine wont wone practice session recitation praxis practise do rehearse apply use commit
Antonyms
Etymology
Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyseder.
The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica.. Displaced native Old English sidu.
The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós).
The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
- noun Customary or constant use; state of being used.
- verb To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. "Incline not my heart . . .
- verb To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
Etymology [OE. praktike, practique, F. pratique, formerly also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, Pretty.]
Etymology [Often written practise, practised, practising.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “practice”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details