Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈpɹæktɪs/
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ˈpɹæktɪs
Verb
To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
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You should practise playing piano every day.
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The legislation also seeks to outlaw “balconing”, the practice of jumping into a swimming pool from a hotel balcony that kills several people each year. In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.
To repeat an activity in this way.
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If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
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They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
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He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
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She practised law for forty years before retiring.
To conspire.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
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Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.
As this advice ye practise or neglect.
To make use of; to employ.
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In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
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In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.
Verb
engage in a rehearsal (of)
carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
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practice law
learn by repetition
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We drilled French verbs every day
Pianists practice scales