pratique

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 References 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.2.1 Derived terms 2.3 Noun 2.4 Verb 2.4.1 References

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Originated 1600—10 from French practice from Medieval Latin practica.

[edit] Noun

pratique (plural pratiques)

1. permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with a quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.

[edit] References

• Pratique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pratique” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “pratique” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /pʁa.tik/

[edit] Adjective

pratique (epicene, plural pratiques)

1. applied; concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it (as opposed to spéculatif or théorique).
2. concrete, practical.
3. belonging to the everyday or mundane.
4. experienced.
5. convenient; handy.

   Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique.

[edit] Derived terms

• pratiquement

[edit] Noun

pratique f. (plural pratiques)

1. practice.
2. execution or implementation of something.
3. methods, process, way of doing something.
4. set of customs in a country or group of people.

   C'est la pratique de ce pays (those are the customs of this country).

5. experience.

   C'est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires (This is a man with business experience).

6. act of frequenting.

   Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société (He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people).

7. clientele, regular clients, or business therewith.

   La pratique n'afflue pas à ce magasin (customers don't flow to that store).

   Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique (you’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business).

8. (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine).

   On donna pratique à ce navire après qu'il eut fait la quarantaine (we gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine).

9. a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism.

[edit] Verb

pratique

1. First-person singular present indicative of pratiquer.
2. Third-person singular present indicative of pratiquer.
3. First-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer.
4. Third-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer.
5. Second-person singular imperative of pratiquer.

[edit] References

• “pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 8th Edition (1932-35).
• “pratique” in the Portail lexical, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, 2009.