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forepractice

noun

Etymology

From fore- + practice.

  1. derived from πρακτικός
  2. derived from prācticus
  3. derived from prācticāre
  4. derived from pratiser
  5. inherited from practice
  6. prefixed as forepractice — “fore + practice”

Definitions

  1. Prior or previous practice

    Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.

    • The small sheet is used as forepractice, to assist the pupils in understanding the mechanism of the test. The large sheets contain the test material.
    • In my case, I usually shoot with no forepractice and often with only one eye—the kinoeye, as Vertov called it.
    • Any kind of preparation or forepractice muddies the waters in its assumption of a goal to be reached. Access to the clarity and the Zing of reality, on the contrary [...]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for forepractice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA