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English
Etymology
The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica.
The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós).
The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete.
Pronunciation
Noun
practice (usually uncountable, plural practices)
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- Synonyms: rehearsal, drill, dry run, exercise, training, trial, workout
He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy.
I have choir practice every Sunday after church.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
2016, Raphael Vella, Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues, Springer, →ISBN, page 53:Which is the most demanding? I think that my practice as an artist is 'stronger' because it is the practice that best fuels and balances myself and that generates new knowledge for my other work as both arts educator and creative arts therapist.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- Synonym: general practice
She ran a thriving medical practice.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- Synonyms: custom, habit, pattern, routine, wont, wone
It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.
It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Antonym: theory
That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?
- (law) 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.
This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
Usage notes
- British, Australian, and New Zealand English spelling distinguishes between practice (noun) and practise (verb), analogously with advice/advise. In American English, the spelling practice is commonly used for both noun and verb. Both practices are found equally in Canadian English.
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Related terms
Collocations
Adjectives often used with "practice"
clinical, medical, professional, private, social, religious, current, best, common, good, general, widespread, universal
Nouns often used with "practice"
work, business, law, nursing, management, classroom, group, family, labor, employment
Translations
repetition of an activity to improve skill
- Afrikaans: oefening
- American Sign Language: A@RadialFinger-PalmAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Frontandback
- Arabic: تَدْرِيب m (tadrīb)
- Armenian: պարապմունք (hy) (parapmunkʻ), վարժություն (hy) (varžutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: əməli iş
- Belarusian: пра́ктыка f (práktyka), практыкава́нне f (praktykavánnje), трэніро́ўка f (treniróŭka)
- Bulgarian: трениро́вка (bg) f (treniróvka), упражне́ние (bg) n (upražnénie)
- Catalan: pràctica (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 練習/练习 (lin6 zaap6)
- Dungan: лянщи (li͡anxi)
- Hakka: 練習/练习 (lien-si̍p)
- Hokkien: 練習/练习 (liān-si̍p)
- Mandarin: 練習/练习 (zh) (liànxí)
- Wu: 練習/练习 (6li-zhiq)
- Czech: cvičení (cs), procvičování, praxe (cs)
- Danish: øvelse (da) c, træning c
- Dutch: oefening (nl) f
- Esperanto: praktikado
- Finnish: harjoitus (fi), harjoittelu (fi)
- French: pratique (fr) f
- Galician: práctica f
- German: Übung (de) f, Üben n, Training (de) n
- Greek: εξάσκηση (el) f (exáskisi)
- Ancient: ἄσκησις f (áskēsis), μελέτημα n (melétēma)
- Hindi: अभ्यास (hi) m (abhyās), रियाज़ f (riyāz)
- Hungarian: gyakorlás (hu), (in some phrases, in a more abstract sense) gyakorlat (hu)
- Indonesian: latihan (id)
- Italian: pratica (it) f
- Japanese: 練習 (ja) (れんしゅう, renshū)
- Kabuverdianu: ensaiu
- Kazakh: іс-тәжірибе (ıs-täjıribe)
- Khmer: ការិយកម្ម (km) (kaareyaʼkam), ការិយកិច្ច (kaareyaʼkəc)
- Korean: 연습(練習) (ko) (yeonseup), 련습(練習) (ko) (ryeonseup) (North Korea)
- Lao: ຫັດ (hat)
- Latin: usus (la) m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Öven f or n, Euven f or n, Training n
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: пракса f (praksa), вежба f (vežba)
- Malay: latihan (ms)
- Maori: parakitihi
- Norman: pratique f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øvelse m, øving m or f, trening (no) m or f, praksis (no) m
- Nynorsk: øving f, trening f
- Persian: تمرین (fa) (tamrin)
- Plautdietsch: Eewunk f
- Polish: praktyka (pl) f, ćwiczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: prática (pt) f
- Romanian: practică (ro) f, aplicare (ro) f, antrenament (ro) n
- Russian: пра́ктика (ru) f (práktika), трениро́вка (ru) f (treniróvka), упражне́ние (ru) n (upražnénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: cleachdadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ве̏жба f, вје̏жба f, пра̏кса f, ве̏жба̄ње n, вје̏жба̄ње n
- Roman: vȅžba (sh) f, vjȅžba (sh) f, prȁksa (sh) f, vȅžbānje (sh) n, vjȅžbānje (sh) n
- Slovak: cvičenie n
- Slovene: urjenje n, praksa f
- Spanish: práctica (es) f
- Swedish: övning (sv) c, träning (sv) c
- Thai: หัด (hàt)
- Turkish: alıştırma (tr), egzersiz (tr)
- Ukrainian: пра́ктика (uk) f (práktyka), впра́ва (uk) f (vpráva), тренува́ння n (trenuvánnja)
- Vietnamese: sự luyện tập (vi)
- Yiddish: פּראַקטיק f (praktik)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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an ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession
an observance of religious duties
customary action, habit, or behaviour
- Afrikaans: gebruik (af)
- Armenian: սովորություն (hy) (sovorutʻyun)
- Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl)
- Belarusian: звы́чай m (zvýčaj)
- Bulgarian: обича́й (bg) m (običáj)
- Catalan: pràctica (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 習慣/习惯 (zh) (xíguàn)
- Czech: obyčej (cs) m, zvyk (cs) m
- Dutch: praktijk (nl)
- Finnish: käytäntö (fi)
- French: pratique (fr) f
- Greek: πρακτική (el) f (praktikí)
- Ancient: ἔθος n (éthos), ἐπιτήδευμα n (epitḗdeuma)
- Hungarian: gyakorlat (hu), szokás (hu)
- Italian: pratica (it) f
- Japanese: 慣習 (ja) (かんしゅう, kanshū), ならわし (ja) (narawashi), 慣行 (ja) (かんこう, kankō), 習慣 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan)
- Korean: 관습(慣習) (ko) (gwanseup), 관행(慣行) (ko) (gwanhaeng), 습관(習慣) (ko) (seupgwan)
- Latin: institūtum (la) n
- Latvian: prakse f
- Maori: tikanga
- Norman: pratique f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: praksis (no) m
- Nynorsk: praksis m
- Polish: nawyk (pl) m, praktyka (pl) f, zwyczaj (pl) m, obyczaj (pl) m
- Portuguese: praxe (pt) f, costume (pt) m
- Russian: обы́чай (ru) m (obýčaj)
- Scottish Gaelic: cleachdadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏бича̄ј m, на̑вика f
- Roman: ȍbičāj (sh) m, nȃvika (sh) f
- Slovak: zvyk m, obyčaj m
- Spanish: costumbre (es) f
- Swedish: vana (sv) c, praxis (sv) c
- Ukrainian: звича́й m (zvyčáj), обича́й m (obyčáj)
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actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory
Translations to be checked
Verb
practice (third-person singular simple present practices, present participle practicing, simple past and past participle practiced)
- (now US) Alternative spelling of practise
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “practī̆se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “practice”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “practice (v.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “practī̆sen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “practice (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
practice
- vocative masculine singular of practicus