Practice vs Norm - What's the difference?
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Repetition of an activity to improve skill.
(uncountable) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
(countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.
Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
(legal) 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.
Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(math) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
(US) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(US) To repeat an activity in this way.
(US) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
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(US) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(intransitive, archaic, US) To conspire.
That which is regarded as normal or typical.
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A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
(mathematics) A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
# if then ;
# given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
# given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
As a noun practice
is repetition of an activity to improve skill.As a verb practice
is (us) to repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.As a proper noun norm is
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English
(wikipedia practice)Alternative forms
* (British) practise (used only for the verb )Noun
(practices)- He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
- She ran a thriving medical practice .
- It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.
- It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
- That may work in theory, but will it work in practice ?
- This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice .
- He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
- (Francis Bacon)
Usage notes
British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English distinguish between practice'' (a noun) and ''practise (a verb), analogously with advice/advise. In American English, practice is commonly used for both forms, and this is also common in Canada.Synonyms
* (improvement of skill) rehearsal, drill, exercise, training, workout * (customary action) custom, habit, routine, wont, wone * fashion, pattern, trick, way, dry run, trialDerived terms
* general practice * overpractice * practice makes perfect * practice what one preaches * put into practice * sharp practiceVerb
(practic)- You should practice playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practice .
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- They gather to practice religion every Saturday.
- She practiced law for forty years before retiring.
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) . SeeDerived terms
* practiced * practicingnorm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) norme, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia norm)- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
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- Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms .