Practised vs Learned - What's the difference?
practised | learned |
(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
(US) (learn): taught
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* 1854 , Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton , 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
* {{quote-magazine
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(learn)
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
As a verb practised
is (practise).As an adjective learned is
(poetic).practised
English
Verb
(head)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
* practised * practisingExternal links
* *Anagrams
*learned
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lerned, from (etyl)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
- My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation [...].
- My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
Alternative forms
*Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.Synonyms
* (having much knowledge) brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little knowledge) ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducatedDerived terms
* learnedly * learnednessEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* learntVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.