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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.
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- (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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sesquipedalianism
English
Etymology
Surface form analyzed as sesquipedalian +? -ism, from sesqui- (“one and a half”) +? pedalian (“of the foot”).
From Latin s?squiped?lis (“a foot and a half long; in metaphorical use, “of an unnatural length, huge, big””), from s?squi (“one and a half times as great”) + ped?lis (“foot”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s?z.kw?.p??d?l.i.?n.?sm?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?skw?p??de?li.?n?zm?/
Noun
sesquipedalianism (plural sesquipedalianisms)
- (uncountable) The practice of using long, sometimes obscure, words in speech or writing.
- (countable) A very long word.
Related terms
- sequi-
- sesquipedal
- sesquipedian
- sesquipedalian
References
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