Definitions for practice

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practice prac·tice

Spelling: [prak-tis]

IPA: /ˈpræk tɪs/

Practice is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 318 anagrams from letters in practice (acceiprt).

Definitions for practice

noun

1. habitual or customary performance; operation:
2. habit; custom:
3. repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency:
4. condition arrived at by experience or exercise:
5. the action or process of performing or doing something:
6. the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine:
7. the business of a professional person:
8. Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
9. Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
10. Usually, practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.

verb (used with object)

1. to perform or do habitually or usually:
2. to follow or observe habitually or customarily:
3. to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation:
4. to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency:
5. to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.

verb (used without object)

1. to do something habitually or as a practice.
2. to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
3. to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill:
4. Archaic. to plot or conspire.

Origin of practice

1375-1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (Middle French pra(c)tiser) Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work Greek prāktikḗ

Examples for practice

As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.

The designs of that power, dark in purpose, are clear in practice.

The method of working with it was simple in idea, however difficult in practice.

The WHO has agreed to meet with Yang and a number of Chinese NGOs to discuss a broader ruling on the practice.

The men use the dolls to practice the basics of caring for babies.

I ought to be supple enough after the practice of these three days.

DeCrow would come to lead a movement against this practice, suing the Hotel Syracuse in 1969 and calling for protests and sit-ins.

This story was used by some third-century North African Christians to justify the practice of women performing baptisms.

However good they may be, we are not ready to put them into practice.

You are recommended, Miss, to the practice of your private devotions.