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A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
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A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
adjective
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Based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis
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Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking.
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Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use
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Jack's knowledge has the practical benefit of giving us useful prototype parts.
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Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical
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All in all, Jack's a very practical chap.
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Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
Examples of practical in a Sentence
For all practical purposes, we have an unlimited supply of air to breathe.
She was glad to find escape from them in practical activity.
Her arguments seemed so wise and practical, that I could not but yield.
Is it finite, or is it for all practical purposes infinite?
On the following day the festival of the unity of Italy was celebrated, but neither this nor the previous meeting had any practical result.
There was a practical motive for using this weapon.
Another effect of the Great Strike was in a more practical direction.
While her writing demonstrates education, most likely her background ill equipped her for the practical realities of the real world.
Sonya alone directed the practical side of matters by getting things packed.
At the same time he was full of schemes, practical and unpractical.
The so-called mysticism of the Persian Sufis is less intense and practical, more airy and literary in character.
If they are not so tested, the general theory will remain a general theory, of no practical use in itself, until the end of time.
Sure, we can be practical and deep down we know it's all smoke but—God, it's fun to dream!
Among these were to be found the most sordid opportunism and the most heroic self-effacement, the crassest supernaturalism and - the loftiest conceptions of practical morality.
And so they went to earn the rewards of their practical piety from the Law.
The gaonate enjoyed a practical tolerance remarkable when contrasted with the letter of Islamic law.
The French assembly did not succeed in obtaining formal assent to these decisions (except from Frankfort and Holland), but they gained the practical adhesion of the majority of Western and American Jews.
India consequently has always been the fertile mother of practical mystics and devotees.
Accordingly, the last age of Greek philosophy is theosophical in character, and its ultimate end is a practical satisfaction.
The scholastic mysticism was, for the most part, practical and psychological in character.
A familiar practical method of estimating carcase weight from live weight is to reckon one Smithfield stone (8 lb) of carcase for each imperial stone (14 lb) of live weight.
Delambre from the data there supplied marked the profit derived from the investigation by practical astronomy.
In England emancipation was of democratic origin and concerned itself with practical questions.
On the practical side, mysticism maintains the possibility of direct intercourse with this Being of beings - intercourse, not through any external media such as an historical revelation, oracles, answers to prayer, and the like, but by a species of ecstatic transfusion or identification, in which the individual becomes in very truth " partaker of the divine nature."
Mysticism first appears in the medieval Church as the protest of practical religion against the predominance of the dialectical spirit.
St Bernard's mysticism is of a practical cast, dealing mainly with the means by which man may attain to the knowledge and enjoyment of God.
Ruysbroeck's mysticism is more of a practical than a speculative cast.
But extended geographical knowledge does not point to any great practical issue.
The influence of Greek culture in northern India is fully recognized, and the distribution of Greek colonies previous to Alexander's time is attested by practical knowledge of the districts they were said to occupy.
Hitherto weight has been laid on the practical side of Mirabeau's political genius; his ideas with regard to the Revolution after the 5th and 6th of October must now be examined, and this can be done at length, thanks to the publication of Mirabeau's correspondence with the Comte de la Marck, a study of which is indispensable for any correct knowledge of the history of the Revolution between 1789 and 1791.
On the great question of the veto he took a practical view, and seeing that the royal power was already sufficiently weakened, declared for the king's absolute veto and against the compromise of the suspensive veto.
He thus superseded Warham, who was legatus flatus, in ecclesiastical authority; and though legates a latere were supposed to exercise only special and temporary powers, Wolsey secured the practical permanence of his office.
His lectures, which were supplemented with practical laboratory teaching, were attended by many chemists who subsequently attained distinction.
The Logic, an eminently practical work, written from the point of view of Locke, is in five parts, dealing with (1) the nature of the human mind, its faculties and operations; (2) ideas and their kinds; (3) the true and the false, and the various degrees of knowledge; (4) reasoning and argumentation; (5) method and the ordering of our thoughts.
This seeming pedantry is, however, atoned for by the clear practical aim of his sermons, the noble ideal he keeps before his hearers, and the skill with which he handles spiritual experience and urges incentives to virtue.
The League naturally sympathized with Poland, not only because Poland was the enemy of the knights, but also because under Poland it hoped to enjoy the practical liberty which Polish anarchy already seemed to offer.
A much more valuable practical result of Brewster's optical researches was the improvement of the British lighthouse system.
The services rendered by Bentham to the world would not, however, be exhausted even by the practical adoption of every one of his recommendations.
The school of practical artillery and engineering was transferred to Fontainebleau from Metz by a decree of 1871, and now occupies the part of the palace surrounding the cour des offices.
A contemporaneous effort in the direction of drying hay by artificial means led to nothing of practical importance.
Judgment founded on knowledge and aided by careful observation, both in the field and in the feeding-shed, must be relied upon as the guide of the practical farmer.
The conclusions of Hellriegel and Wilfarth have thus been confirmed by the later experiences of Rothamsted, and since that time efforts have been directed energetically to the practical application of the discovery.
This has taken the form of inoculating the soil with the particular organism required by the particular kind of leguminous crop. To this end the endeavour has been made to produce preparations which shall contain in portable form the organisms required by the several plants, and though, as yet, it can hardly be claimed that they have been generally successful, the work done justifies hopes that the problem will eventually be solved in a practical direction.
Freeman advances the theory that the right of all the freemen to attend the genzot had for practical purposes fallen into disuse, and thus the assembly had come to be confined to the wise men.
Mill's friendship with Mrs Taylor and their marriage in 1851 involved a break with his family (apparently due to his resentment at a fancied slight, not to any bitterness on their part), and his practical disappearance from society.
Both his logical and his metaphysical studies were thus undertaken as the pre-requisites of a practical theory of human development.
The economist should be a man of wide sympathies and practical sagacity, in close touch with men of different grades, and, if possible, experienced in affairs.
His assumptions are based upon ordinary observation and experience, and are usually accurate in proportion to his practical shrewdness and sagacity, so that he is not interested in the speculative flights of philosophy, except in so far as they influence or have influenced conduct.
There would probably have been no controversy at all on this subject but for the fact that economics was elaborated into systematic form, and made the basis of practical measures of the greatest importance, long before the remarkable development in the 19th century of historical research, experimental science and biology.
Where the newer methods were assimilated, the position of economics was strengthened and its practical utility increased.