Dictionary Entry
practice
practice is a 8-letter English word with 29 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
- 2noun
Customary or constant use; state of being used.
- 3noun
Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
- 4noun
Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
- 5noun
Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
- 6noun
Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
- 7noun
Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
- 8noun
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- 9noun
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.
- 10transitive verb
To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
- 11transitive verb
To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
- 12transitive verb
To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
- 13transitive verb
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- 14transitive verb
To make use of; to employ.
- 15transitive verb
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- 16intransitive verb
To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
- 17intransitive verb
To learn by practice; to form a habit.
- 18intransitive verb
To try artifices or stratagems.
- 19intransitive verb
To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
- 20noun
a customary way of operation or behavior
"it is their practice to give annual raises"
"they changed their dietary pattern"
Synonyms
- 21noun
translating an idea into action
"a hard theory to put into practice"
"differences between theory and praxis of communism"
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- 22noun
the exercise of a profession
"the practice of the law"
"I took over his practice when he retired"
- 23noun
systematic training by multiple repetitions
"practice makes perfect"
Synonyms
- 24noun
knowledge of how something is usually done
"it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"
- 25verb
learn by repetition
"We drilled French verbs every day"
"Pianists practice scales"
- 26verb
engage in a rehearsal (of)
- 27verb
engage in or perform
"practice safe sex"
"commit a random act of kindness"
Synonyms
- 28verb
avail oneself to
"apply a principle"
"practice a religion"
- 29verb
carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
"practice law"
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