practise

Etymology 1
From, a variant of , from , , from , from  , from , from , from , from , ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
 * You should practise playing piano every day.
 * 1)  To repeat an activity in this way.
 * If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.
 * 1)  To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
 * They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
 * 1)  To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
 * She practised law for forty years before retiring.
 * 1)  To conspire.
 * 2) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
 * 3) To make use of; to employ.
 * 4) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
 * 1) To make use of; to employ.
 * 2) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
 * 1) To make use of; to employ.
 * 2) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
 * 1) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

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.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: A@RadialFinger-PalmAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Frontandback
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian: prauticar
 * Avar: ругьун гьавизе
 * Azerbaijani: məşq eləmək,
 * Bulgarian: упражня́вам се, трени́рам се
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 練習
 * Dungan: лянщи
 * Hakka: 練習
 * Hokkien: 練習
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 練習
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, træne
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ekzerci
 * Faroese: venja
 * Finnish:
 * French: s'entrainer,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:, , κάνω εξάσκηση
 * Ancient: μελετάω, ἀσκέω
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cleacht
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ຫັດ, ຝຶກ, ຊ້ອມ
 * Latin: exercito, factito
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: öven, euven
 * Lü:
 * Malay:
 * Maori: whakaharatau, whakawai, whakawaiwai
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: øve, trene
 * Ossetian: фӕлварын
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: หัด,
 * Turkish: pratik yapmak
 * Tuvan: өөренир, мергежиир, шенеттинер
 * Ukrainian: практикува́тися, тренува́тися
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: praktiki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: πράσσω
 * Italian: fare pratica
 * Latin: exerceō
 * Norman: pratitchi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: pratik yapmak
 * Ukrainian: практикува́тися


 * Asturian: prauticar
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: udøve
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νομίζω, ποιέω, μελετάω, ἀσκέω, πράσσω
 * Hungarian:
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo: shaakaluu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: занима́вам се с
 * Catalan:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Norman: pratitchi
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Danish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Mandarin:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Welsh: