Practise vs Improvement - What's the difference?
practise | improvement |
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
(transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(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
* Alexander Pope
To make use of; to employ.
* Massinger
To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
* Landor
The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
* (Robert South)
* (Hugh Blair)
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, title= The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
* (Samuel Clarke)
* (John Tillotson)
The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
* (Joseph Addison)
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
* (Joseph Addison)
* (Robert South)
(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
As a verb practise
is (transitive|british|canada|australia|new zealand|ireland) to repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.As a noun improvement is
the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.practise
English
Alternative forms
* practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)Verb
(practis)- You should practise playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
- They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
- She practised law for forty years before retiring.
- Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
- As this advice ye practise or neglect.
- In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
- 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) . SeeDerived terms
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* emprovement (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- A good improvement of his reason.
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
- There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.