Practically
['præktɪk(ə)lɪ] or ['præktɪkli]
Definition
(adv.) in a practical manner; 'practically orientated institutions such as business schools'; 'a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely'.
(adv.) almost; nearly; 'practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train'; 'he was practically the only guest at the party'; 'there was practically no garden at all'.
Edited by Ben--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
(adv.) By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.
(adv.) In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
(adv.) Almost.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Really, actually, substantially, in_fact, in_effect,[See ACTUALLY]
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Examples
- They say, don't they, he went on, that the secretary helped her to get away from her brute of a husband, who kept her practically a prisoner? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This attitude is what is practically meant by will. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Practically Attalus handed over his country to be looted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Indeed, without this tireless minutiae, and methodical, searching spirit, it would have been practically impossible to have produced many of the most important of these inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We see that the source of carbon dioxide is practically inexhaustible, coming as it does from every stove, furnace, and candle, and further with every breath of a living organism. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If the distance is short, so that few air particles are involved, the time required for transmission is very brief, and the sound is heard at practically the instant it is made. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Practically alone he was obliged to continue his work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But in this case the Italian boat was on the surface and was at the time practically a surface ship. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was the discovery that gave us practically the modern steam-engine, with its countless uses in unnumbered fields. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In Britain Latin was practically wiped out by the conquering Anglo-Saxons, from among whose various dialects the root stock of English presently grew. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Practically I find that what is called being apostolic now, is an impatience of everything in which the parson doesn't cut the principal figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And this compound engine is practically the very engine that we have to-day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- By using combinations of two or more lenses of various kinds, it is possible to have an image of almost any desired size, and in practically any desired position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Practically all small railroad stations and local telegraph offices use these cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The market was practically as free and open as if no patent existed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Practically all household filters of drinking water are made of charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Those men in Washington, most of them lawyers, are so educated that they are practically incapable of meeting a new condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Did you ever realize that practically all industrial chemistry is colloidal in its nature? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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