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Procedure vs Practise - What's the difference?

procedure | practise |

As a noun procedure

is procedure.

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.

procedure

Noun

  • A particular method for performing a task.
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  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  • (label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
  • The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  • * (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
  • Gracious procedures .
  • (label) That which results; issue; product.
  • (Bacon)
  • (label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  • (label) A surgical operation.
  • Synonyms

    * (method) algorithm, method, process, routine * (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol * (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages) * (medicine) operation

    Anagrams

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    practise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * practice (standard for noun but incorrect for verb outside US; almost universal for both in American English)

    Verb

    (practis)
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
  • You should practise playing piano every day.
  • (intransitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To repeat an activity in this way.
  • If you want to speak French well, you need to practise .
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
  • They gather to practise religion every Saturday.
  • (transitive, British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
  • She practised law for forty years before retiring.
  • (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
  • Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practise your severity.''
  • * Alexander Pope
  • As this advice ye practise or neglect.
  • To make use of; to employ.
  • * Massinger
  • In malice to this good knight's wife, I practised Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
  • To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • * Landor
  • 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) . See

    Derived terms

    * practised * practising

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