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Practise vs Doing - What's the difference?

practise | doing |

As verbs the difference between practise and doing

is that practise is (transitive|british|canada|australia|new zealand|ireland) to repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity while doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard).

practise

English

Alternative forms

* practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)

Verb

(practis)
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
    • You should practise playing piano every day.
  • (intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
    • If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
    • They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
    • She practised law for forty years before retiring.
  • (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
    • Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
  • * Alexander Pope
    • As this advice ye practise or neglect.
  • To make use of; to employ.
  • * Massinger
    • In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
  • To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • * Landor
    • In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbour.

    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

    Derived terms

    * practised * practising

    Related terms

    * practic * practicable * practical * practice * practitioner

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    doing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pedantic)

    Etymology 1

    See (do).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
    • This is his doing . (= "He did it.")

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopœic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
    • Synonyms
    * boing

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