What's the difference between outing and practice?

Outing


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
  • (n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The therapist consulted with staff before and after outings, thus providing integration with the over-all treatment plan.
  • (2) "That's money you could use for a family outing, a treat for the kids, or a meal in town."
  • (3) If she learns anything from this disastrous outing, I hope itʼs that if sheʼs going to allow the music industry to play her as a sex object, she needs to at least own it.
  • (4) He said that the BNP wanted a second outing on Question Time to be "re-run in the correct format".
  • (5) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
  • (6) The Lakers snapped a six-game skid in their final outing, but their demanding fans could forget about the awful season for one night.
  • (7) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
  • (8) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
  • (9) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
  • (10) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
  • (11) Enhanced caller identification pages could also show details of the person on the other end of the line including their location, and prompts such as the names of their children, their last holiday or a recent cinema outing.
  • (12) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
  • (13) The only notable change comes in adding multiplayer, a first for the 3D outings.
  • (14) There’s quite a hidden LGBT element in terms of revenge porn,” adds Noone, who says attackers will sometimes threaten to post pictures “outing” someone to family and friends unless blackmail demands are met.
  • (15) I wish it would rain down Great Continental Railway Journeys followed the first outing for BBC2's new natural history epic, Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains, presented by Kate Humble and Simon King in Zambia.
  • (16) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
  • (17) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
  • (18) It’s hot up there,” said Arsène Wenger as he surveyed the scene at the top end of the Premier League, with everyone winning their midweek outings.
  • (19) 7 members of a family of 14 developed acute viral hepatitis approximately one month after a family outing.
  • (20) Here are seven takeaways from our first proper look at Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the suave British spy.

Practice


Definition:

  • (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
  • (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
  • (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
  • (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
  • (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
  • (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
  • (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
  • (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
  • (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
  • (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
  • (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
  • (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
  • (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
  • (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
  • (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
  • (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
  • (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.