To Practise, Practice

1. (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
2. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
3. (transitive) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
4. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
6. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
7. To make use of; to employ.
8. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

Usage notes[edit]

• In sense "to repeat an activity as a way improving one's skill" this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

• British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South African English spelling distinguishes between practice (a noun) and practise (a verb), analogously with advice and advise though without an analogous difference in pronunciation. In American English, the spelling practice is commonly used for both noun and verb.

• British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English spelling distinguishes between practice (a noun) and practise (a verb), analogously with advice and advise. In American English, the spelling practice is commonly used for both noun and verb.