Practice
['præktɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a customary way of operation or behavior; 'it is their practice to give annual raises'; 'they changed their dietary pattern'.
(noun.) translating an idea into action; 'a hard theory to put into practice'; 'differences between theory and praxis of communism'.
(noun.) the exercise of a profession; 'the practice of the law'; 'I took over his practice when he retired'.
(noun.) knowledge of how something is usually done; 'it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner'.
(verb.) avail oneself to; 'apply a principle'; 'practice a religion'; 'use care when going down the stairs'; 'use your common sense'; 'practice non-violent resistance'.
(verb.) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; 'practice law'.
Checked by Debbie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
(n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
(n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
(n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
(n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
(n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
(n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
(v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
(v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
(v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
(v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
(v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
(v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
(v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
(v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
(v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Custom, habit, wont, frequent repetition.[2]. Use, usage.[3]. Action, actual performance.[4]. Exercise (as of a profession), application.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner,performance
ANT:Disuse, dishabituation, Inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance
Typed by Alice
Definition
n. the habit of doing anything: frequent use: state of being used: regular exercise for instruction: performance: method: medical treatment: exercise of any profession: a rule or method in arithmetic.—ns. Practicabil′ity Prac′ticableness quality of being practicable.—adj. Prac′ticable that may be practised used or followed: passable as a road.—adv. Prac′ticably.—adj. Prac′tical that can be put in practice: useful: applying knowledge to some useful end: derived from practice.—ns. Practical′ity; Prac′tical-joke a trick of an annoying kind played on any one; Prac′tical-knowl′edge knowledge which results in action.—adv. Prac′tically in a practical way: actually: by actual trial.—n. Prac′ticalness.
Editor: Sharon
Examples
- It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- What could he practice on? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- So far as practice is concerned the attempt is an absurdity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nevertheless the idea of Plato is not easily put into practice. Plato. The Republic.
- I spect they's the kind, though they han't never had no practice. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It makes me cross, and my hands get so stiff, I can't practice well at all. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are those who, by these practices, take a great deal in a year out of the public purse, and put the money into their own private pockets. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Was not the only true, because the only moral, life gained through obedient habituation to the customary practices of the community? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is only by degrees that the great body of mankind can be led into new practices, however salutary their tendency. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I allow no such practices with gentlemen on my place, said Mr. Shelby, with as much sternness as he could command, under the circumstances. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The next day Tarzan was practicing with his bow and arrows at the first gleam of dawn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A practicing surgeon and apothecary of Penzance, Bingham Borlase, was willing to take Davy as an apprentice, and the youth began work and study in his office. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Today shepherds tending their flocks upon these same hills of Syria may be seen practicing with slings like those of David. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Therefore, five gentlemen were appointed to prepare the document, and the fifty others went sadly smiling about the ship--practicing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Commissioner of Labor, and a well-known publicist, then practicing patent law in Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It will be seen, therefore, that this method of duplexing is practiced, not by varying the strength or polarity, but by sending TWO KINDS OF CURRENT over the wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Whenever governments enter upon foreign invasions in order to avoid civil wars, the same trick is practiced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The process of slaughtering and dressing pork, as practiced to-day, is a continuous one, and is well illustrated in Fig. 170, in 13 operations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He practiced with his rope and played with his sharp knife, which he had learned to keep keen by whetting upon flat stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Besides metallurg y they practiced the arts of weaving, dyeing, distillation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Checker: Wilmer