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# practice

«practice» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **doing something again and again to get better at it, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (practice, practices); verb in US English (practice, practices, practiced, practicing); UK verb spelt practise (practise, practises, practised, practising)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Practice is doing something again and again to get better at it, like playing the piano every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#m1)

2) A practice is a meeting where a team trains, like football practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#m2)

3) A practice is also the way something is usually done, a habit: it is good practice to wash your hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#m3)

4) A doctor's or dentist's practice is the place where they work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#m4)

5) Practice can also be a verb, meaning to carry on an activity regularly, as a habit or skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: time spent practising: minutes per day, total over a week, or practice sessions counted; often a rate: total = days × time per day. In school: practice questions, spelling practice. In sport and music: practice makes you better; «practice makes perfect». Phrases: piano practice, football practice, in practice, out of practice, put into practice, practice makes perfect.

### examples

- "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x1)
- She does 20 minutes of piano practice each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x2)
- Football practice is 2 hours long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x3)
- How many minutes of practice in 5 days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x4)
- He went to 3 practices this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x5)
- Practice makes perfect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x6)
- We did some spelling practice before the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x7)
- I am out of practice, so I play slowly now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x8)
- It is good practice to check your answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x9)
- The dentist's practice is next to the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x10)
- But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/#x11)

### note

In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the noun is «practice» and the verb is «practise» (like advice / advise); in the USA both are «practice». Often a time per day (a rate): total = days × time per day. Trap: change minutes to hours where asked (60 minutes = 1 hour).

### In the corpora

- [Lots of young adults find phone calls to strangers scary; planning what to say first helps, and it gets easier with practice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/)
- [Homework is practice; copying it skips the learning and shows up in tests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/11/)
- [A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/17/)
- [Asking a bot for practice questions is a smart way to revise, if they cover the right topics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/12/)
- [Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «practice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/practice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.