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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Am I looking at the same one?
Hi,
I got the folowing when I look at the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Are the uses of it the same for both cases? Are we talking about the same 'practice'? Why one seems to be uncountable and the other countable?
1. firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure.
2. a unform certain reasonable lawful practice existing in a particular locality or occupation and binding persons entering ...
I got the folowing when I look at the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Are the uses of it the same for both cases? Are we talking about the same 'practice'? Why one seems to be uncountable and the other countable?
1. firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure.
2. a unform certain reasonable lawful practice existing in a particular locality or occupation and binding persons entering ...
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key=62103&dict=CALD ----------
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Same meaning, the 1st shown here, where practice is shown as both C(Countable) and U(Uncountable):
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http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=62103&dict=CALD
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http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=62103&dict=CALD
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Thank you.
The Collins Cobuild Compact English learner's Dictionary has what look to be two separate definitions among many others and the two of them being this:
N-C You can refer to something that people do regularly as a practice
N-VAR Practice means doing something regularly in order to do it better.
Which one fits the use of two original sentences?
The Collins Cobuild Compact English learner's Dictionary has what look to be two separate definitions among many others and the two of them being this:
N-C You can refer to something that people do regularly as a practice
N-VAR Practice means doing something regularly in order to do it better.
Which one fits the use of two original sentences?
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