Vulpine vs Practise - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to a fox.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
Having the characteristics of a fox, foxlike; cunning.
Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .
* 1980 , Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf ,
A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.
(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
As an adjective vulpine
is pertaining to a fox.As a noun vulpine
is any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .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.vulpine
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
See also
* canine * lupine * Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae) ----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.