Word Finder - practice

definition

Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

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He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.

synonyms

• drill
• dry run
• exercise
• rehearsal
• training
• trial
• workout

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An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.

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Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.

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The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.

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A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.

example

She ran a thriving medical practice.

synonyms

• general practice

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The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.

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A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.

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It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.

synonyms

• custom
• habit
• pattern
• routine
• wone
• wont

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Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.

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That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?

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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.

example

This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.

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Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.

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A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

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To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

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You should practise playing piano every day.

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To repeat an activity in this way.

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If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.

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To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.

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They gather to practise religion every Saturday.

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To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).

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She practised law for forty years before retiring.

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To conspire.

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To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.

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To make use of; to employ.

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To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

Everything gets better with practice, Carmen.

His father joined him and handed him his wooden practice sword.

I know it was back when baseball practice start­ed.

You need to do a little target practice too.

The things which they practice are said not yet to be known.

It also encouraged vivisection - a practice common with Descartes himself.

But in practice there is every opportunity for skill.

Any practice work I've ever seen was done by rote.

All it takes is practice.

In English practice the leader is entitled to a second throw if he fail to roll a On Scottish greens the game of points is frequently played, but it is rarely seen on English greens.

The regiments had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand Duke's orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their proper posts.

He had tried to teach her to play the piano many times through the years, but she always became bored within a week or so of practice and gave up.

She didn't need to practice.

I suppose dancing that well would require a lot of practice.

After 1881 he devoted his time to the practice of his profession and to lecturing and writing.

The tango is a dance both Argentina and Uruguay practice and there are many similarities in their cuisine.

A more directly religious element, it is true, was introduced by the practice of attending the synagogue service; but it is to be The grammatical inflexions of the word "Sabbath" would show that it is a feminine form, properly shabbat-t for shabbat-t.

Toward the end of his career at the bar, however, he changed from a general practitioner to a patent lawyer, and as such had a lucrative practice.

It is probable that very little of this moral legislation was enforced in practice, though special efforts were made under the government of the major-generals.

He used to place all his Sikhs and visitors in rows and cause them to eat together, not separately, as is the practice of the Hindus.

Second are the inefficiencies in the human processes—that is, the techniques by which we practice agriculture.

Martha, free to indulge, surprised me by drinking more than her share, an uncommon practice on her part.

There's nothing to prove the practice notebook is even in her writing.

Jonathan was gone again to band practice.

Artists have been known to use the left hand in the hope of checking the fatal facility which practice had conferred on the right; and if Hood had been able to place under some restraint the curious and complex machinery of words and syllables which his fancy was incessantly producing, his style would have been a great gainer, and much real earnestness of object, which now lies confused by the brilliant kaleidoscope of language, would have remained definite and clear.

In theory a two-years contingent of course should be half as large again as a three-years one, but in practice, France has not men enough for so great an increase.

Nay, in the Roman church a practice of fasting on Saturday as well as on Friday was current before the time of Tertullian.

This practice obtains in all missionary countries, e.g.

But Hyrcanus was well content to forgo the title to political power, which he could not exercise in practice, and Antony had been a friend of Antipater.

There is reason to think that, notwithstanding the order for the use of incense at every celebration, it was in practice burnt only on high festivals, and then only in rich churches, down to the period of the Reformation.

For several years after 1814 he was a school teacher, but in February 1821 he was admitted to the Ohio bar and soon obtained a large practice, particularly in criminal cases.

The Zulu possess an elaborate system of laws regulating the inheritance of personal property (which consists chiefly of cattle), the complexity arising from the practice of polygamy and the exchange of cattle made upon marriage.

Memories of these customs lingered even if the practice had died out.

Ropes of tapering section may be used for great depths, but are not satisfactory in practice.

In practice it may be considerably less, owing to leakage at the valves and between the piston and cylinder.

But consistently with the practice which has always prevailed in India, there is a large field of law in Burma which the British government has not attempted to disturb.

In this year he published his Exposition on the Church Catechism, perhaps better known by its sub-title, The Practice of Divine Love.

His practice was not confined to his own country, but extended also to Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Piedmont and Egypt.

The practice of pruning or "stopping" is, consciously or unconsciously, regulated by the mode of growth.

This is one of the earliest recorded instances of a practice common enough on the accession of Oriental despots.

It was at once attacked by Ratramnus and Hrabanus Maurus, but was so completely in touch with the practice of the church and the spirit of the age, as to win the verdict of Catholic orthodoxy.

Nevertheless, it has been found in practice, when syrups with low quotient of purity and high quotient of impurity are being treated, injecting the feed at a number of different points in the pan does reduce the time required to boil the pan, though of no practical advantage with syrups of high quotient of purity and free from the viscosity which impedes circulation and therefore quick boiling.

In 1629 Prynne came forward as the assailant of Arminianism in doctrine and of ceremonialism in practice, and thus drew down upon himself the anger of Laud.

The practice of magic, superstition, &c., are also frequently referred to as sacrilege, especially during the long struggle with German heathenism.

On some of the strongest land it was formerly the practice to add to and plough into it burnt clay, with the object of making the land work more easily.

From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as she would speak to any hearing child; the only difference was that she spelled the sentences into my hand instead of speaking them.

I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to "keep himself in practice," he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he can do in this world, he says, beside this, to keep up and add to his English.

Joseph has a gun and I don't like being used for target practice.

He was certain to take her to climax each time before seeking his own release, a practice she'd never participated, when she was a goddess who felt nothing.

I haven't even had any sibling practice.