different between practice vs proletarianism

English

Etymology

See practise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ækt?s/

Noun

practice (usually uncountable, plural practices)

1. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

   Synonyms: rehearsal, drill, dry run, exercise, training, trial, workout

2. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.

3. (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.

4. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.

   Synonym: general practice

5. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
6. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.

   Synonyms: custom, habit, pattern, routine, wont, wone

7. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.

   Antonym: theory

8. (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.

9. 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?)

10. (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)

1. (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

1. vocative masculine singular of practicus

English

Etymology

proletarian +? -ism; compare proletarism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA^(key): /?p???l??t?????n?z?m/
• (General American) enPR: pr?'l?tâ?r??n?z?m, IPA^(key): /?p?o?l??t??i.?n?z?m/
• Hyphenation: pro?le?tar?i?an?ism

Noun

proletarianism (usually uncountable, plural proletarianisms)

1. (uncountable) The political character and practice of the proletariat; advocacy or advancement of the proletariat’s interests.
2. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being a proletarian.
3. (countable) A proletarian word or turn of phrase; a vulgarism.
   • 1973, Flying, volume 92, page 8:

     The scatological proletarianisms of Don Jonz reflect poorly on your heretofore high level of editorial standards.

   • 1992, Thomas Burns McArthur (editor), The Oxford Companion to the English language, page 553:

     There is a fine dividing line between the everyday sensationalism of popular and tabloid journalism and the parodies in such publications as the British satirical magazine Private Eye, which uses proletarianisms in such headlines as The Royals, dontcha lovem!

   • 2005, John Sutherland, biographical note to H. G. Wells’ The History of Mr Polly (Penguin Classics):

     Sadly, even the ‘genteel’ proletarianisms of Polly and his class are nowadays only normally heard among citizens over the age of fifty. In a few years that richly nuanced dialect will be as dead as Sanskrit.

4. (uncountable, rare) Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.

Derived terms

• proletarianise, proletarianised, proletarianising

References

• “prole?tarianism” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “proletarianism, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2007)