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pratique

See also: pratiqué

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Etymology

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Originated 1600–10. Borrowed from Middle French practique, pratique, from Medieval Latin prāctica. Doublet of practice.

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Noun

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pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)

  1. (nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
    • 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, pages 5–6:
      It is here a cuſtome ſtrictly obſerued (as alſo elſevvhere vvithin the Streights belonging to the Chriſtians) not to ſuffer any to trafficke or come aſhore before they haue a Pratticke from the Signoirs of Health: vvhich vvill not be granted vntill forty dayes after their arriuall, […] Notvvithſtanding, they vpon requeſt vvill carry you to the Lazaretto (vvhich is in the nature of a Peſt-houſe) there to abide vntill the date be expired. But if any fall ſicke amongſt them in the meane ſeaſon, their Pratticke is accordingly prolonged. A great inconuenience to the Merchants, but at Venice intollerable: vvhere vvhen they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto.
  2. (obsolete) Practice; habits.
    • a. 1734, Roger North, Autobiography:
      Whereas in private teaching, their company is either superiors, inferiors, and if equals, but a few, without the liberty and variety of pratique as in a populous school.

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French practique, from Medieval Latin prāctica.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pʁa.tik/
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Adjective

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pratique (plural pratiques)

  1. practical, applied (concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it)
    Synonym: appliqué
    Antonyms: spéculatif, théorique
  2. concrete, practical
    Synonym: concret
    Antonym: abstrait
  3. belonging to the everyday or mundane
    Synonyms: commun, quotidien
  4. experienced
    Synonym: expérimenté
  5. convenient; handy
    Synonym: commode
    Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique.
    This remote control is really convenient.

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Noun

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pratique f (plural pratiques)

  1. practice
  2. execution or implementation (of something)
  3. methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something)
  4. set of customs in a country or group of people
    C’est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.
  5. experience
    C’est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.
  6. act of frequenting
    Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.
  7. clientele, regular clients
    La pratique n’afflue pas à ce magasin. ― Customers don't flow to that store.
    Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. ― You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business.
  8. (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine)
    On donna pratique à ce navire après qu’il eut fait la quarantaine. ― We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.
  9. a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism

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Descendants

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  • → Romanian: practică

Verb

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pratique

  1. inflection of pratiquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Etymology

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pratique f (plural pratiques)

  1. (Jersey) practice

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Verb

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pratique

  1. inflection of praticar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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