practice
/ˈpɹæktɪs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
Uncountable
noun
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
Uncountable
noun
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
Uncountable
noun
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
Uncountable
noun
The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) training, rehearsing, rehearsal, dry run, trial, workout"
- "He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them."
- "Being on a team is hard: you're always having to go to practice while everyone else is taking it easy."
- "I have choir practice every Sunday after church."
- "I was rusty, but after a few months, I got back into practice."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree ▲ Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyseder. Middle English practice, practique, practyse English practice The noun is from Middle English practice, practique, practyse, from the verb; also compare Medieval Latin prāctica.. Displaced native Old English sidu. The verb is from Middle English practice, practise, practize, practyse, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin prācticāre, from Late Latin prācticus, from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós). The spelling practice is attested once in Middle English for both the noun and the verb. The noun began to be assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice; practise (noun) is now obsolete.
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- Uncountable
- Countable
- American usage