Difference between Practice and Drill

What is the difference between Practice and Drill?

Practice as a noun is repetition of an activity to improve skill. while Drill as a noun is a tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

Practice

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Repetition of an activity to improve skill. The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts. The observance of religious duties which a Church requires of its members. A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity. To repeat an activity in this way. To perform or observe in a habitual fashion. To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine). To conspire. To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

Example sentence: Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Drill

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bitAn activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise)An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To create a hole by removing material with a drill (1)To practice, especially in a military contextTo repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember itTo investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different levelTo cause one's subordinates to drill (2)

Example sentence: I am seeing youts getting off the street. They talk about drill and its influence and how it's bad blah, blah, blah, but all I'm seeing is it's getting youts off the streets.

We hope you now know whether to use Practice or Drill in your sentence.

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