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practice
English
Etymology
See practise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?ækt?s/
Noun
practice (usually uncountable, plural practices)
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- Synonyms: rehearsal, drill, dry run, exercise, training, trial, workout
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- (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.
- 2016, Raphael Vella, Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues, Springer (?ISBN), page 53
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- Synonym: general 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
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Antonym: theory
- (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.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (mathematics) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
Usage notes
British, Canadian, 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
- practic
- practicable
- practical
- practitioner
Translations
Verb
practice (third-person singular simple present practices, present participle practicing, simple past and past participle practiced)
- (US) Alternative spelling of practise
Derived terms
- practiced
- practicing
Further reading
- practice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?prak.ti.ke/, [?p?äkt??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?prak.ti.t??e/, [?p??kt?it???]
Adjective
practice
- vocative masculine singular of practicus
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gradus
English
Etymology
From Gradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???e?d?s/
Noun
gradus (plural graduses)
- A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.
Anagrams
- Dagurs, Dugars, Guards, draugs, durags, guards
French
Etymology
From Gradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools.
Noun
gradus m (plural gradus)
- gradus
- Any books of instruction, or guides, in which gradual progress in literature, language instruction, music, or the arts in general, is sought.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *g?red?- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *gr?sti (Old Church Slavonic ?????? (gr?sti)), Lithuanian gridyti, Proto-Germanic *gridiz (Gothic ???????????????????? (grids)), Old High German crit). The expected form would be *radus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /??ra.dus/, [??räd??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /??ra.dus/, [??r??d?us]
Noun
gradus m (genitive grad?s); fourth declension
- a step, pace
- a stage, degree
- a rank
- (by extension) a position, station, ground
- firm position, stand
- a step, stair, rung of a ladder
- a braid of hair
- (mathematics) degree
- 1553, Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles [1]
- Motus, seu locus, per signa, gradus, minuta, et secunda constitutus, intelligitur (secundum regulam Alphonsi) signa physica, id est quodlibet signum ex 60 gradibus compositum, et quilibet gradus ex 60 minutis, et quodlibet minutum ex 60 secundis, et sic succesivem: et per consequens, sex signa totum circulum perficiunt.
- A motion, or location, for a sign, being composed of degrees, minutes, and seconds, is understood (according to the rule of Alphonse) to be a physical sign, that is, every sign is composed of 60 degrees, and every degree of 60 minutes, and every minute of 60 seconds, and so on and so forth: and in consequence, six signs make up an entire circle.
- Motus, seu locus, per signa, gradus, minuta, et secunda constitutus, intelligitur (secundum regulam Alphonsi) signa physica, id est quodlibet signum ex 60 gradibus compositum, et quilibet gradus ex 60 minutis, et quodlibet minutum ex 60 secundis, et sic succesivem: et per consequens, sex signa totum circulum perficiunt.
- 1553, Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles [1]
Declension
- Archaic genitive singular graduis is occasionally found.
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
- gradior
Descendants
References
- gradus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gradus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gradus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- gradus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- gradus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gradus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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