Competent vs Practised - What's the difference?
competent | practised |
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
(legal) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Adequate for the purpose
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
(practise)
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(intransitive, obsolete, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To conspire.
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To make use of; to employ.
* Massinger
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
* Landor
As an adjective competent
is competent (able).As a verb practised is
(practise).competent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
- For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
- judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
- "For if [birds] had been Viviparous , the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been so big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them "
Quotations
* "I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922 * "That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922practised
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Verb
(head)practise
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Alternative forms
* practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)Verb
(practis)- You should practise playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
- They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
- She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
- As this advice ye practise or neglect.
- In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
- In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.