different between practicable vs practise

English

Etymology

From French praticable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ækt?k?b?l/

Adjective

practicable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
   • 1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials (page 136)

     The law in most states says that cyclists must ride as far to the right as is practicable.

2. Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
3. Available for use; accessible or employable.

Usage notes

Example of use contrasted with practical:

• "While others might agree that it really was practical to rewrite the entire section, it just was not truly practicable given other considerations."

Synonyms

• (capable of being accomplished): feasible, workable
• usable

Antonyms

• impracticable

Derived terms

• practicability
• practicableness
• practicably

Related terms

• practical

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

practicable (plural practicables)

1. practicable, feasible

English

Alternative forms

• practice (US)

Etymology

From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from pr?ctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (pr?ktik?), from ????????? (pr?ktikós, “practical”), from ????????? (pr??ssein, “to do”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?k?t?s, IPA^(key): /?p?ækt?s/

Verb

practise (third-person singular simple present practises, present participle practising, simple past and past participle practised)

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

   You should practise playing piano every day.

2. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.

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

3. (transitive) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.

   They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
4. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).

   She practised law for forty years before retiring.

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
6. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
7. To make use of; to employ.
   • 1629, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Picture

     In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.

8. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

   • In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.

Usage notes

• In sense "to repeat an activity as a way improving one's skill" this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

• British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African English spelling distinguishes between practice (a noun) and practise (a verb), analogously with advice and advise. In American English, the spelling practice is commonly used for both noun and verb.

Derived terms

• practised
• practise what one preaches
• practising

Related terms

• practic
• practicable
• practical
• practice
• practitioner

Translations

Further reading

• practise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• practise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Noun

practise (plural practises)

1. Misspelling of practice.

Anagrams

• crispate, paretics, patrices, picrates, pie carts