Practised vs Fitted - What's the difference?
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(practise)
(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
(fit) (to tailor, change size)
(to tailor, change size)
Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.
Practised is a related term of fitted.
As verbs the difference between practised and fitted
is that practised is (practise) while fitted is (fit) (to tailor, change size).As an adjective fitted is
incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.practised
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Verb
(head)practise
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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.