practise
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- practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρακτική (prāktikē), from πρακτικός (praktikós, “practical”), from πράσσειν (prassein, “to do”)
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[edit] Verb
practise (third-person singular simple present practises, present participle practising, simple past and past participle practised)
- (transitive, UK, Canada) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- You should practise playing piano every day.
- (intransitive, UK, Canada) To repeat an activity in this way.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
- (transitive, UK, Canada) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
- (transitive, UK, Canada) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- (intransitive, obsolete, UK, Canada) To conspire.
- Alternative spelling of practice (verb).
[edit] Usage notes
- In sense "to repeat an activity as a way improving one's skill" this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
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[edit] Translations
transitive: repeat (an activity) to improve one's skill
intransitive: repeat an activity to improve one's skill
perform or observe in a habitual fashion
(Archaic) conspire
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[edit] External links
- practise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- practise in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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