Clues for the word "PRACTICE"
We've had 21 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 32 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on October 15, 2024.
Definition of practice
- n. - Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
- n. - Customary or constant use; state of being used.
- n. - Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
- n. - Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
- n. - Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
- n. - Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
- n. - Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
- n. - A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- n. - The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- v. t. - To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
- v. t. - To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
- v. t. - To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
- v. t. - To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- v. t. - To make use of; to employ.
- v. t. - To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- v. i. - To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
- v. i. - To learn by practice; to form a habit.
- v. i. - To try artifices or stratagems.
- v. i. - To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
Referring Clues
- Dry run
- The way things are done
- Rehearse
- It makes perfect
- Train
- "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary," per Vladimir Horowitz
- Lawyer's business
- Law firm
- Custom
- Rehearsal
- Doctor's business
- Do something, being in charge of normal behaviour
- Exercise for posture included in charge
- ___ makes perfect
- Pretend to be in charge in training
- Professional person's business
- What makes perfect doctors?
- Cost to keep part of play in rehearsal
- Source of perfection, so they say
- Make perfect, maybe
- Drill
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 28, 2024
- LA Times - September 14, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 06, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 22, 2024
- New York Times - January 28, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - August 01, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 29, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 06, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - September 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 23, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - February 04, 2018
- Netword - November 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 05, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - May 21, 2017
- New York Times - October 15, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - August 11, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - July 31, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - May 27, 2016
- Universal - April 03, 2013
- New York Times - June 11, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - January 25, 2008
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - March 04, 2007
- And in 2 more crossword puzzles...