Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

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.