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Practiced
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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noun
1.
habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
2.
habit; custom: It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
3.
repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency: Practice makes perfect.
4.
condition arrived at by experience or exercise: She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
5.
EXPANDthe action or process of performing or doing something: to put a scheme into practice; the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
6.
the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine: She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
7.
the business of a professional person: The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
8.
Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
9.
Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
10.
COLLAPSEUsually, practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.
verb (used with object)
11.
to perform or do habitually or usually: to practice a strict regimen.
12.
to follow or observe habitually or customarily: to practice one's religion.
13.
to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation: to practice law.
14.
to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency: to practice the violin.
15.
to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.
verb (used without object)
16.
to do something habitually or as a practice.
17.
to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
18.
to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill: to practice at shooting.
19.
Archaic. to plot or conspire.
Origin:
1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (< Middle French pra(c)tiser) < Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work < Greek prāktikḗ noun use of feminine of prāktikós practic; see -ize; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (< Middle French pra(c)tiser) < Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work < Greek prāktikḗ noun use of feminine of prāktikós practic; see -ize; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
Related forms
prac·tic·er, noun
mis·prac·tice, noun, verb, mis·prac·ticed, mis·prac·tic·ing.
non·prac·tice, noun
out·prac·tice, verb (used with object), out·prac·ticed, out·prac·tic·ing.
o·ver·prac·tice, verb (used with object), o·ver·prac·ticed, o·ver·prac·tic·ing.
EXPANDpre·prac·tice, verb, pre·prac·ticed, pre·prac·tic·ing.
re·prac·tice, verb (used with object), re·prac·ticed, re·prac·tic·ing.
COLLAPSE
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