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: The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
Pattern
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That from which a copy is madedesign, motif or decoration formed from multiple copies of an original fitted togetherarrangement of objects, facts etc. which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationshipa series of steps, repeatedthe quality held in common by a patternin Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, the arrangement of prefixes, suffixes, consonant-doubling, vowels, and stress in a word formed around a consonantal rootA design pattern.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to apply a patternto follow an exampleto fit into a pattern
Example sentence: It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.