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Professional vs Practicing - What's the difference?

professional | practicing |

As nouns the difference between professional and practicing

is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while practicing is the act of one who practices.

As adjectives the difference between professional and practicing

is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while practicing is actively engaged in a profession.

As a verb practicing is

present participle of lang=en.

professional

English

Noun

(wikipedia professional) (en noun)
  • A person who belongs to a profession
  • A person who earns his living from a specified activity
  • An expert.
  • * 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
    • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
  • *
  • *:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
  • (lb) Expert.

    • Derived terms

    * non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessional

    practicing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Actively engaged in a profession.
    • My uncle is a practicing dentist.
  • Participating in the rituals and mores of a religion.

    • Usage notes

    Practicing'' is the common spelling in American English. British and Commonwealth English use ''practising .

    Derived terms

    * nonpracticing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who practices.