Practice means to do something over and over, out of habit, because it has become an accepted custom, or on purpose to try to get better at the task.
(verb)Practice is defined as to use an idea or actually put it into place. It also refers to the act of continually doing something in order to get better at it.
(noun)See practice in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb practiced, practicing
Origin: ME practisen < MFr practiser, altered < practiquer < ML practicare < LL practicus < Gr praktikos, concerning action, practical < prassein, to do
intransitive verb
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verb prac·ticed, prac·tic·ing, prac·tic·es verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English practisen
Origin: , from Old French practiser
Origin: , alteration of practiquer
Origin: , from practique, practice
Origin: , from Medieval Latin prāctica; see practicable
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