From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [prăkʹtĭs] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], a variant of [enm], from [en], [frm], from [en] [la], from [en]
[la], from [la], from [en], from [grc], from [grc], ultimately from [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en] [US]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
2. [en] To repeat an activity in this way.
3. [en] To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
4. * [1=en]
5. * [ 1=en]
6. [en] To pursue (a career , especially law , fine art or medicine ).
7. [en] To conspire .
8. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
9. * [II]
10. * [book=VII]
11. To make use of; to employ.
12. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1629 | author=w:Philip Massinger; w:Nathan Field | title=The Picture
|passage=In malice to this good knight's wife, I PRACTISED Ubaldo and Ricardo
to corrupt her.}}
1. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
2. * [3]
***** 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 .
- British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South African English spelling distinguishes between _practice_ (a noun) and _practise_ (a verb), analogously with _advice_ and _advise_ though without an analogous difference in pronunciation. In American English, the spelling _practice_ is commonly used for both noun and verb.
***** Derived terms
- [en] , [en]
- [en] < !--adjective-->
- [en]
- [en] < !--adjective-->
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] < !--As a noun, not as an alternative spelling.-->
- [en]
***** Translations
[to repeat an activity as a way of improving one's skill]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Albanian: [sq]
- American Sign Language: [ase]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [sports] [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Ossetian: [os]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tuvan: [tyv] , [tyv] , [tyv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to perform or execute a craft or skill]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to perform or observe in a habitual fashion]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Oromo: [om]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Italian: [it]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
***** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] .
2. * [en]
3. * [act=V]
4. * [chapter=The Languages]
5. * [scene=i]
6. * [en]
7. * [chapter=Of Christ’s Dying for None but the Elect]
8. * [en]
9. [en] .
*** Anagrams
- [en]