Practice

Practice may refer to:

  • Best practice
  • Law firm, a legal practice
  • Medical practice, a company which engages in the practise of medicine
  • Phantom practice, phenomenon in which a person's abilities continue to improve, even without practising
  • Practice (learning method), a method of learning by repetition
  • Practice (social theory), a theoretical term for human action in society* Practice-based professional learning
  • Practice of law
  • Target practice, any exercise in which projectiles are fired at a specified target
  • The Practice, a TV program about a legal practice
  • Spiritual practice
  • Standards and Practices, a conventional, traditional, or otherwise standardised method

Famous quotes containing the word practice:

    “By practice and conviction formed,
    With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
    Although her body clung and swarmed,
    My own identity remained.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

    “It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)