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practice vs usage

usage vs practice

practice and usage both are nouns.

practice is a verb but usage is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
practice Yes No Yes No
usage Yes No No No
As nouns, usage is a hyponym of practice; that is, usage is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than practice:
  • practice: a customary way of operation or behavior
  • usage: accepted or habitual practice
Other hyponyms of practice include biologism, cooperation, featherbedding, formalism, one-upmanship, pluralism, symbolisation, symbolism, symbolization, modernism, occult, occult arts, ornamentalism, cannibalism, careerism, custom, usance, habitude, fashion, lobbyism, slaveholding, slavery, peonage, unwritten law, lynch law, mistreatment, nonconformism, calisthenics, callisthenics, papism, popery, quotation, ritual, ritualism, naturism, nudism, systematism, cross dressing, transvestism, transvestitism.
As nouns, usage is a hypernym of practice; that is, usage is a word with a broader meaning than practice:
  • practice: the exercise of a profession
  • usage: the act of using
Other hypernyms of practice include employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization.
practice (noun) usage (noun)
a customary way of operation or behavior the act of using
systematic training by multiple repetitions accepted or habitual practice
the exercise of a profession the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
translating an idea into action
knowledge of how something is usually done
practice (verb) usage (verb)
learn by repetition
engage in a rehearsal (of)
carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
avail oneself to
engage in or perform
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