practic
practic — adjective
- practicpositive
- more practiccomparative
- most practicsuperlative
1. relating to real situations, actions, or things that you do with your hands, rat
relating to real situations, actions, or things that you do with your hands, rather than ideas or theories — an older form of the word practical.
Tunde offered some practic advice on how to fix the broken fence using simple tools.
practic + noun for real-world, hands-on advice
Ingrid's approach to garden design was more practic than theoretical.
be + practic as a predicative adjective
The village elders passed down practic skills for building homes out of local materials.
Hao found that the practic training at the workshop taught him more than any textbook.
- theoretical
relating to ideas rather than real action
文法句型
practic + noun
be + practic
用法筆記
This spelling is an archaic variant of practical. In modern English, practical is used in all the same contexts. The form practic survives mostly in historical or deliberately old-fashioned writing.
常見錯誤
2. having skill, knowledge, or ability gained through direct experience — an older
having skill, knowledge, or ability gained through direct experience — an older form of the word practiced.
Michael is well practic in the art of traditional pottery making.
practic + in + noun phrase
After twenty years at sea, Liam was a practic sailor who read weather by instinct.
Dewi became practic in handling difficult negotiations after years of mediation work.
The night-shift nurse was practic in treating common emergencies without needing help from a doctor.
- adept
focuses on high skill level, similar to 'practiced' in modern use
- experienced
emphasises having done something many times
- skilled
focuses on high ability rather than length of experience
- inexperienced
lacking the skill that comes from practice
- novice
new to an activity, with little practice
文法句型
practic + in + noun/gerund
be + practic
用法筆記
This sense is an archaic variant of practiced. The pattern practic in + noun/gerund (e.g. 'practic in diplomacy') mirrors the modern pattern 'practiced in'. Distinguish from sense 1 (PRACTICAL), which focuses on real-world usefulness rather than personal skill level.
常見錯誤
practic — noun
1. the actual doing of something rather than just thinking or talking about it, or
the actual doing of something rather than just thinking or talking about it, or the repeated performance of an activity in order to improve — an older form of the word practice.
During her first week at the restaurant, the new cook put school knowledge into practic.
put [noun] into practic — idiom-like phrase meaning 'apply'
For Kian, daily practic on the piano was the only way to master a piece.
daily practic for repeated performance to improve
Nala found that regular practic in the laboratory sharpened her skills as a chemist.
In practic, Owen found that the new method was more efficient than the old one.
- practice
the standard modern equivalent; use in contemporary contexts
- application
focuses on putting knowledge to use
- theory
abstract ideas rather than real action
文法句型
in practic
put + noun + into practic
用法筆記
This noun sense is an archaic variant of practice. In modern English, practice (US: practice) is the standard spelling. The phrase in practic ('in reality, in actual use') mirrors modern 'in practice'. The noun is uncountable in this sense.