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Practice can be a noun or a verb.
practice used as a noun:
- Repetition of an activity to improve skill.
"He will need lots of practice with those lines before he performs them." - The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
"She ran a thriving medical practice." - The observance of religious duties which a Church requires of its members.
- A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.
"It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers." - Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
"That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
practice used as a verb:
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
"You should practice playing piano every day." - To repeat an activity in this way.
"If you want to speak French well, you need to practice." - To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
"They gather to practice religion every Saturday." - To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
"She practiced law for forty years before retiring." - To conspire.
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Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is practice?
- Noun usage: He will need lots of practice with those lines before he performs them.
- Noun usage: She ran a thriving medical practice.
- Noun usage: It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.
- Noun usage: It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
- Noun usage: That may work in theory, but will it work in practice?
- Verb usage: You should practice playing piano every day.
- Verb usage: If you want to speak French well, you need to practice.
- Verb usage: They gather to practice religion every Saturday.
- Verb usage: She practiced law for forty years before retiring.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of practice are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of practice, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
