Exercise
['eksəsaɪz] or ['ɛksɚsaɪz]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; 'the doctor recommended regular exercise'; 'he did some exercising'; 'the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit'.
(noun.) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; 'you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook'.
(noun.) systematic training by multiple repetitions; 'practice makes perfect'.
(noun.) (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; 'academic exercises'.
(verb.) do physical exercise; 'She works out in the gym every day'.
(verb.) give a workout to; 'Some parents exercise their infants'; 'My personal trainer works me hard'; 'work one's muscles'; 'this puzzle will exercise your mind'.
Checked by Hugo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
Checker: McDonald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Practice, use, appliance, application, performance, operation, employment.[2]. Exertion, labor, work, toil, effort.[3]. Training, schooling, discipline, drill, drilling.[4]. Lesson, task.
v. a. [1]. Exert (constantly), employ, busy, apply, use, put in action, set to work.[2]. Discipline, train, drill, break in, habituate to practice.[3]. Practise, pursue, carry on.[4]. Task, try, afflict, pain, make uneasy.
v. n. Labor, work, make exertion, take exercise.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exertion, use, practice, application, training, employment, drill
ANT:Rest, ease, relaxation, recreation
SYN:Practise, train, cultivate, develop
ANT:Rest, ease, disuse, respite, relax, recreate
Editor: Roxanne
Definition
n. a putting in practice: exertion of the body for health or amusement: discipline: a lesson task academical disputation &c.: (Shak.) skill: (pl.) military drill: an act of worship or devotion: a discourse the discussion of a passage of Scripture giving the coherence of text and context &c.—the addition giving the doctrinal propositions &c.: the Presbytery itself.—v.t. to train by use: to improve by practice: to afflict: to put in practice: to use: to wield.—adj. Ex′ercisable.
Edited by Katy
Unserious Contents or Definition
Bodily exertion requiring a 10,000 gymnasium, a ten-acre lot and impossible raiment. Originally confined to the wash-tub and the wood-pile.
Checked by Estes
Examples
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- For a long time, though studying and working patiently, I had accustomed myself to robust exercise. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Laughing and pressing her arm, he retorted: 'But still, again for instance; would you exercise that power? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And when will you commence the exercise of your function? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And one woman has a turn for gymnastic and military exercises, and another is unwarlike and hates gymnastics? Plato. The Republic.
- Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper,' said Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I assure you, riding is the most healthy of exercises. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That science may be taught as a set of formal and technical exercises is only too true. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How unjustly, how capriciously, how cruelly, they have commonly exercised it, is too well known from recent experience. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o'clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Count was exercising his canaries as he used to exercise them in Marian's time at Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But they will retain their warlike character, and will be chiefly occupied in fighting and exercising rule. Plato. The Republic.
- Perhaps they are only exercising their horses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Such occupations were considered as fit only for slaves, and the free citizens of the states were prohibited from exercising them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As the eighteenth century progressed, it is apparent in the literature of the time that what to do with the poor was again exercising men's thoughts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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