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Definition: Practiced |
PracticedAdjective1. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching". 2. Skillful after much practice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "practiced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: PracticedSynonyms: adept (adj), expert (adj), good (adj), practised (adj), proficient (adj), skilful (adj), skillful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preparation | Ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced; (skilled); labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up. |
Proficient | Nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror; (deceiver); wizard. |
Skill | Experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I haven't practiced for a while (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein. Based on the novel by Stephen McCauley.) | |
Lyrics | The quartet practiced in the park (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) Which prior to that time had been practiced only furtively by a remote tribe in the Andes who passed the secret down from father to son as part of their oral tradition (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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 | Flash and sound ranging survey as practiced by Charles Wilkes Shoot cannon - see flash - measure time till hear sound - determine distance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Trap fishing as practiced in some Mediterranean tuna fisheries and the state of Gibraltar. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A large dairy farm in Lafayette County, WI. Feed management is practiced on a large confined animal feeding operation. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | As part of the ridge-tillage system practiced at the John Van Meter farm, OSU assistant farm manager Wayne Lewis cultivates for weed control in soybeans. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | Front (east) portico. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1959. (Reproduction Number: HABS, VT, 14-WOOD,1-4) Job Lyman, a young lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts, finished this house in the village of Woodstock in 1810. He and his bride, Mary Hall, lived in it for many years while Job practiced law in town. The finely carved Neoclassical detailing on the entrance porch suggests Lyman's refined taste and the prosperity of Woodstock at the time of construction. Decorated with fluted Ionic columns and scrolled ornament, the porch also features steps made of granite from a nearby quarry. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | In China today, the ancient skills of acupuncture are practiced in combination with modern medical methods. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |
 | Seen from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as the two ships practiced towing and refueling by trailing hose, circa April-May 1941. Credit: NAVY. |  | A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the "humane" British and their "worthy" allies. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the humane British and their worthy allies!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | Tzu-kung asked about the true gentleman. The Master said, He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. |
Samuel Butler | People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt and fear, she had practiced denying them in herself |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This diversion is only practiced by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favors at court |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid anal intercourse, but if practiced, use a male condom. (references) | |
Biofeedback can be practiced at home with a portable monitor. (references) | ||
Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. (references) | ||
Business | The law permits incommunicado detention, but there is no evidence that it is practiced. (references) | |
Co-generation (the combined generation of heat and electricity) is practiced by a number of manufacturing companies. (references) | ||
Although Korea has quickly modernized, it is important to recognize that modern does not equal Western as traditional ways of thinking in many areas are still practiced. (references) | ||
Children | Palau | Child prostitution is neither accepted within society nor practiced. (references) |
India | Although abetting or taking dowry theoretically is illegal under the Dowry Prohibition Act, it still is practiced widely. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Chile | Investigative journalism is practiced infrequently for both financial and political reasons; however, electronic newspapers are beginning to include such stories more frequently. (references) |
Economic History | Benin | Several religions are practiced in Benin. (references) |
Guatemala | Protestantism and traditional Mayan religions are practiced by an estimated 40% and 1% of the population, respectively. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Every major religion is practiced in Hong Kong; ancestor worship is predominant due to the strong Confucian influence. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Common methods of torture practiced by police included hanging persons upside down for long periods, genital mutilation, electric shocks, and deprivation of air by submersion of the head in water. (references) |
Ukraine | The Office of the Prosecutor General practiced selective prosecution and initiated investigations against the political or economic opponents of the President and his allies. (references) | |
Bahamas | Exile is illegal and is not practiced. (references) | |
Minorities | Nepal | Caste discrimination is widely practiced at Hindu temples where, for example, members of the lowest castes are not permitted to enter. (references) |
Sweden | Citizens are tolerant of diverse religions practiced in the country; however, there is limited anti-Semitism, which in the past has manifested itself in the vandalization of synagogues with graffiti and in threatening letters. (references) | |
Kenya | Occasionally mobs killed members of their communities on suspicion that they practiced witchcraft; however, there were no statistics available on the number of such deaths during the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | UNITED KINGDOM | Like the United States, however, most collective bargaining can occur on virtually any issue at any level -- unlike many other European states where industry-wide, national bargaining is still widely practiced. (references) |
Ghana | Trokosi, a traditional form of ritual servitude, is practiced on a limited scale in one region of the country. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Virtually all journalists practiced some self-censorship. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | Violent crime, practiced by persons in police and military uniforms, as well as by ordinary criminals, is an acute problem. (references) |
Malaysia | Tipping for service is generally not practiced. (references) | |
New Zealand | Business customs practiced in the United States share many commonalties with the New Zealand commercial community. (references) | |
Women | Yemen | The procedure mainly is confined to excision, with infibulation being practiced only among East African immigrants and refugees. (references) |
South Africa | Prostitution is illegal, but it is widespread and practiced fairly openly. (references) | |
Malaysia | In family and religious matters, Muslim women are subject to Shari'a, which is not practiced uniformly among the country's 13 states. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | The law does not grant workers the right to engage in collective bargaining, and it is not practiced. (references) |
Comoros | The new Constitution prohibits forced or compulsory labor, and it generally was not practiced among adults. (references) | |
Samoa | While workers have the legal right to engage in collective bargaining, they seldom have practiced it, due to the novelty of union activity and the inexperience of union leaders. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Sumner Redstone | Well, you know, I practiced law like a lot of kids did then. Very idealistic, thinking I was going to make the world better. But when I found out that the law was just another business, and it was, I decided to go in business for myself. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The great abundance of running water which this situation possesses, at heights far above the level of the tide, if employed as is practiced for lock navigation, furnishes the means for raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | To give to this great mass of physical and moral force the efficiency which it merits, and is capable of receiving, it is indispensable that they should be instructed and practiced in the rules by which they are to be governed. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | When the Governments of the earth shall have established a freedom like our own and shall have sanctioned the pursuit of peace as we have practiced it, I believe the last sorrow and the final sacrifice of international warfare will have been written. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We have never practiced the policy of competitive armaments. |
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| "Practiced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "Practiced" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 61.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "practiced": long-practiced. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
did i lesson practiced reading speed technique | 3 |
church in manifestation practiced spiritual today | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "practiced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ushtruar (practice). (various references) | |
Arabic | خبير (experienced, expert, master, old, old hand, proficient, pundit, skilled), بارع فى التحليل. (various references) | |
Chinese | 熟練 (proficient, skilled, skillful), 实践 (on-the-job, Practice, Practicing, Practise, practised). (various references) | |
French | pratiquai, pratiqués, pratiquâmes, pratiquèrent, expert, expérimenté (proficient), exercé. (various references) | |
German | übte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתור'ל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapasztalt (cunning, experienced, know one's onions, non-starter, practised, proficient, seasoned, sophisticated, streetwise, versed, veteran), szakavatott (practised, workmanlike), jártas (artful, cunning, expert, handy, practised, proficient, versed), hozzáértõ (adept, businesslike, competent), gyakorlott (practised, proficient, skilful, skillful, trained, veteran). (various references) | |
Italian | pratico (businesslike, conversant, down to earth, experienced, expertly, hard-headed, practical, practised, serviceable, versed), esperto (ably, accomplished, adept, adroit, clever, connoisseur, experienced, expert, oldster, practised, professional, pundit, skiful, skilful, skilled, skillful, trained). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 慣れた (experienced, familiar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なれた (domesticated, experienced, familiar, tame). (various references) | |
Korean | 실행하" (implemented, Performed, practised). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acticedpray.(various references) | |
Russian | практика испытанный. (various references) | |
Spanish | muy entrenado (practised), experto (able, accomplished, Ace, adept, adroit, clever, connoisseur, dexterous, experienced, expert, knowledgeable, nifty, nimble, practised, proficient, seasoned, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | artifex, artificem, artifices, artificesque, artificibus, artificis, artificum, exercitatis, exercitatos, exercitatum, exercitatus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Daniel Chapter 8, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai egenhqhsan epi th qusia ai amartiai kai errifh camai h dikaiosunh kai epoihse kai euwdwqh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Robur autem datum est contra iuge sacrificium propter peccata et prosternetur veritas in terra et faciet et prosperabitur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe strengthe is youen to hym ayeinus the contynuel sacrifice for synnes, and trewthe shal be cast doun in erthe; and he shal haue prosperite, and shal do. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | ... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it. |
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| Language | Daniel Chapter 8, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang panon gitugyan na lamang kaniya uban sa dayon nga halad-nga-sinunog tungod sa kalapasan; ug gihulog ngadto sa yuta ang kamatuoran, ug kini nagtuman sa iyang gikahimut-an ug miuswag. |
| Chinese | 罪 過 的 緣 故 、 有 軍 旅 ' 常 獻 的 " 祭 交 付 他 、 他 將 真 理 拋 在 地 上 、 任 意 而 行 、 無 不 利 。 |
| Croatian | Vojska se digla na žrtvu svagdašnju zbog opaèine, na zemlju oborila istinu i uspje u svemu što èinjaše. |
| Danish | Og på Alteret for det daglige Offer lagdes en Misgerning; Sandheden kastedes til Jorden, og Hornet havde Lykke med, hvad det gjorde. |
| Dutch | En het heir werd in den afval overgegeven tegen het gedurig offer; en hij wierp de waarheid ter aarde; en deed het, en het gelukte wel. |
| Finnish | Myös sotajoukko jokapäiväisen uhrin lisäksi annettiin rikollisesti alttiiksi tuholle. Se sarvi heitti totuuden maahan, ja mitä se teki, siinä se menestyi. |
| French | L`armée fut livrée avec le sacrifice perpétuel, cause du péché; la corne jeta la vérité par terre, et réussit dans ses entreprises. |
| German | Es ward ihm aber solche Macht gegeben wider das tägliche Opfer um der Sünde willen, daß es die Wahrheit zu Boden schlüge und, was es tat, ihm gelingen mußte. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu orang-orang di sana mulai berdosa dan tidak mempersembahkan kurban-kurban yang diwajibkan itu. Maka ibadah yang benar telah dicampakkan ke tanah. Tanduk itu berhasil dalam segala perbuatannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tentara itu diserahkan kepada kebinasaan serta dengan persembahan yang senantiasa itu oleh perbuatan khianat, dan diempaskannya kebenaran itu ke bumi dan dalam segala yang dibuatnya itu beruntunglah ia. |
| Maori | I homai ano te ope ki a ia me te patunga tapu tuturu, na te kino hoki, na turakina iho e ia te pono ki te whenua; a mahi ana, kake ana. |
| Norwegian | Og sammen med det stadige offer blev hæren overgitt til ødeleggelse for frafallets skyld; og hornet kastet sannheten til jorden, og det hadde fremgang med alt det foretok sig. |
| Portuguese | E o exército lhe foi entregue, juntamente com o holocausto contínuo, por causa da transgressão; lançou a verdade por terra; e fez o que era do seu agrado, e prosperou. |
| Rumanian | Oastea a fost pedepsitq din pricina pqcatului sqvkrwit kmpotriva jertfei necurmate; cornul a aruncat adevqrul la pqmknt, wi a izbutit kn ce a knceput. |
| Swedish | Jämte det dagliga offret bliver ock en härskara prisgiven, för överträdelses skull. Och det slår sanningen ned till jorden och lyckas väl i vad det företager sig. |
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Misspellings | |
"Practiced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Practica, practicke, practicle, Practico. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "practiced" (pronounced pra"kti'st) |
| 4 | -t i' s t | baptist, chartist, corporatist, cutest, defeatist, dramatist, egotist, flutist, pragmatist, statist. |
| 3 | -i' s t | absurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, czarist, dualist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, publicist, purist, realist, recidivist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: accredit, picrated, practice. | |
-2 letters: caprice, diptera, paretic, partied, peracid, picrate, pirated, practic, predict. | |
-3 letters: accept, acetic, airted, arctic, capric, caried, carped, carpet, carted, craped, crated, credit, cretic, depart, depict, diaper, direct, icecap, ipecac, paired, pardie, parted, pectic, petard, pirate, prated, preact, priced, redact, redcap, redipt, repaid, tirade, traced, trepid, triced. | |
-4 letters: acred, acrid, acted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-p-r-t" | |
+3 letters: reciprocated. | |
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