Practitioner vs Practical - What's the difference?
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A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
(British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
Based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis
Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use
Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical
Practical is a related term of practitioner.
As nouns the difference between practitioner and practical
is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while practical is a part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability.As an adjective practical is
based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.practitioner
English
(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
Derived terms
* general practitioner * nurse practitioner * pracademicReferences
*practical
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking.
- Jack's knowledge has the practical benefit of giving us useful prototype parts.
- All in all, Jack's a very practical chap