Definition of "practice"

practice

/ˈpɹæktɪs/

noun
usually uncountable, plural practices
1. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
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.
  Quotations
  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, page 53
4. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a 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.
7. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to 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.
  Quotations
  He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,
10. (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
verb
third-person singular simple present practices, present participle practicing, simple past and past participle practiced
1. (now US) Alternative spelling of practise
  Quotations
  I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed to practice economy now.
  1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 57

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