What is the difference between practice and wont?
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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.
One’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.
* Milton
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* 1920 , James Brown Scott, The United States of America: A Study in International Organization , page 142:
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(archaic) Accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).
* Shakespeare
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(designating habitual behaviour) Accustomed, apt (to doing something).
(archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
(archaic) To be accustomed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
Wont is a synonym of practice.
As nouns the difference between practice and wont
is that practice is repetition of an activity to improve skill while wont is one’s habitual way of doing things, practice, custom.As verbs the difference between practice and wont
is that practice is (us) to repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity while wont is (archaic) to make (someone) used to; to accustom.As a adjective wont is
(archaic) accustomed or used (to'' or ''with a thing).practice
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 * practicingwont
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain: apparently a conflation of (wone) and wont (participle adjective, below).Noun
(en-noun)- He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont .
- They are to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont .
- With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont [...]
- As was also the wont of international conferences, a delegate from Pennsylvania, in this instance James Wilson, proposed the appointment of a secretary and nominated William Temple Franklin
- Such conditions, having been the common practice for years, and, existing in a less degree in some localities to the present time, afford a tangible reason for a form of correlation that is more universal than it is the wont of the profession to admit [...]
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adjective
(-)- I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
- He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime : he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up
- He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
- Like a 60-yard Percy Harvin touchdown run or a Joe Haden interception return, Urban Meyer’s jaw-dropping resignation Saturday was, as he’s wont to say, “a game-changer.” — Sunday December 27, 2009, Stewart Mandel, INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL'', ''Meyer’s shocking resignation rocks college coaching landscape
See also
* * prone toVerb
(en verb)- But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most sway [...].