Practise

/ˈpɹæktɪs/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
2. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
3. (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
4. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
6. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
7. To make use of; to employ.
8. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

Example Sentences

You should practise playing piano every day.

If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.

They gather to practise religion every Saturday.

Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]

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.

She practised law for forty years before retiring.

Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.

As this advice ye practise or neglect.

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Word Forms

• practises
• practising
• practised
• practice

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