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practice (PRAK tis); practise (primarily British) (verb)
1. To do or to perform habitually or customarily; to make a habit of: Everyone should practice courtesy when being with other people.
2. To work at, especially as a profession: Helena wants to practice law after she graduates from university.
2. To work at, especially as a profession: Helena wants to practice law after she graduates from university.
Fred wants to practise his skills as a computer technician so he can make his living in this vocation in England.
practice (PRAK tis) (noun)
The act of doing or performing something repeatedly in order to acquire or to polish a skill: It takes a lot of practice for a tennis player to become successful as a professional.
It has been Jillian's morning practice always to do practice sit-ups. She used to be able to do 10, now she can do 20; and when she goes to England, she can practise the same exercise routine.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“practice”
(Greek > Latin: skilled in the law; busy, skilled in business; a thing done; to do, effect, accomplish, practice)
(Greek > Latin: to do, to exercise, doing; action, activity, practice; the opposite of theory; from the stem of prassein, "to do, to act")
(Latin: use, employ, practice)
(the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma)
(Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the practice of extracting natural gas from underground shale deposits by injecting high-pressure streams of water, sand, and chemicals)
(eating dirt or earth is a common practice on a global scale)
(Greek, ismos; Latin, ismus: a suffix: belief in, practice of, condition of, process, characteristic behavior or manner, abnormal state, distinctive feature or trait)
(Latin: heal, cure, remedy; physician, doctor; practice of medicine, give medicine to)