pratique

See also: pratiqué

English

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

pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)

(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.
(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.

pratique (plural pratiques)

practical, applied (concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it)
Synonym: appliqué

Antonyms: spéculatif, théorique
concrete, practical
Synonym: concret

Antonym: abstrait
belonging to the everyday or mundane
Synonyms: commun, quotidien
experienced
convenient; handy
Antonym: incommode

Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique. ― This remote control is really convenient.

pratique f (plural pratiques)

practice
execution or implementation (of something)
methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something)
set of customs in a country or group of people
C’est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.
experience
C’est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.
act of frequenting
Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.
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.
(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.
a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism

pratique

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

“pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
“pratique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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pratique f (plural pratiques)

pratique

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

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