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Practice vs Sport - What's the difference?

practice | sport |

As nouns the difference between practice and sport

is that practice is repetition of an activity to improve skill while sport is fun, pastime, sport.

As a verb practice

is (us) to repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

practice

Alternative forms

* (British) practise (used only for the verb )

Noun

(practices)
  • Repetition of an activity to improve skill.
  • He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
  • (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.
  • She ran a thriving medical practice .
  • The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
  • A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.
  • 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.
  • Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
  • That may work in theory, but will it work in practice ?
  • (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.
  • This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice .
  • Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
    (Francis Bacon)
  • (math) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
  • 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, trial

    Derived terms

    * general practice * overpractice * practice makes perfect * practice what one preaches * put into practice * sharp practice

    Verb

    (practic)
  • (US) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
  • You should practice playing piano every day.
  • (US) To repeat an activity in this way.
  • If you want to speak French well, you need to practice .
  • (US) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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    They gather to practice religion every Saturday.
  • (US) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
  • She practiced law for forty years before retiring.
  • (intransitive, archaic, US) To conspire.
  • 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

    * practiced * practicing

    sport

    English

    (wikipedia sport)

    Noun

  • (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  • (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  • * Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport ; she laughed at the loser.
  • * The loser was a good sport , and congratulated Jen on her performance.
  • (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
  • * You're such a sport ! You never get upset when we tease you.
  • (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Think it but a minute spent in sport .
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
  • * Hey Diddle Diddle
  • The little dog laughed to see such sport , and the dish ran away with the spoon.
  • (obsolete) Mockery; derision.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
  • (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  • * Dryden
  • flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
  • * John Clarke
  • Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
  • (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
  • (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
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  • (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
  • (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
  • * Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.
  • (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
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  • (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
  • * Broome
  • An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.

    Derived terms

    * air sport * blood sport * combat sport * contact sport * cue sport * extreme sport * flying sport * good sport * individual sport * mind sport * motorsport * old sport * poor sport * professional sport * spectator sport * spoilsport * sportsman * sportsmanship * sport jacket * sport stacking * sport utility vehicle * team sport * watersport * wheelchair sport * winter sport

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To amuse oneself, to play.
  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
  • * Tillotson
  • He sports with his own life.
  • To display; to have as a notable feature.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
  • (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  • * Bible, Isa. lvii. 4
  • Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
  • To represent by any kind of play.
  • * (John Dryden)
  • Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  • To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
  • (Darwin)

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