I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practical alternative
▪ This treatment represents a practical alternative to surgery.
a practical approach
▪ Women often take a more practical approach.
a practical exam (=in which you have to make or do things)
▪ There’s a practical exam as well as a written one.
a practical experiment (=one that relates to real situations or events, not scientific theories)
▪ The research team compiled a set of practical experiments in Modern Astronomy.
a practical joke (=that involves tricking someone)
▪ What the workers think is a practical joke, management might regard as sabotage.
a practical matter
▪ He wrote to him several times about practical matters to do with the house.
a practical problem
▪ Burying a pet can present practical problems.
a practical purpose
▪ These materials are too fine to have a practical purpose in daily life.
a practical suggestion (=based on real situations, not just ideas)
▪ What practical suggestions can you offer to teachers of children with learning difficulties?
a practical/viable proposition (=likely to be possible or successful)
▪ A complete ban on strikes is not a practical proposition.
a practical/workable solution (=one that is really possible)
▪ They've had to find practical solutions to practical problems.
a viable/practical option (=something you can choose that will be successful)
▪ Surgery may be a viable option when all else fails.
an academic/practical etc turn of mind
▪ youngsters with an independent turn of mind
economic/practical/political etc necessity
▪ I’m afraid it’s become a matter of economic necessity.
from a practical point of view
▪ Saving energy in your home is fairly easy from a practical point of view.
practical advice
▪ The programme aims to offer practical advice on healthy eating.
practical difficulties (=problems with doing something)
▪ It’s a great idea, but there will be a number of practical difficulties.
practical experience (=experience gained from doing something, not from books or study)
▪ The classes provide students with some practical experience of computers.
practical help
▪ The organization offers practical help with finding accommodation.
practical implications
▪ Academic research often has practical implications.
practical importance (=related to things that happen, rather than just ideas)
▪ Science has long been of practical importance to civilization as a whole.
practical joke
practical limitations
▪ Practical limitations, such as a shortage of equipment, may prevent them from achieving their goal.
practical nurse
practical skills
▪ Students will have the opportunity to learn a lot of practical skills.
practical/useful/helpful pointers
▪ a few useful pointers about using the technique
the technical/practical/financial etc aspects
▪ The technical aspects of the movie were incredible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ There were forty-seven children working on a very practical activity for a whole morning in one room.
▪ My father was never very practical, he said.
▪ His steps for transformation are very practical.
▪ The use of the null hypothesis does have one very practical use.
▪ Some of these lessons were very practical.
▪ WalkerThomas had two very practical suggestions.
▪ A slightly callous, but very practical attitude.
▪ It may not, however, be very practical for several reasons.
■ NOUN
advice
▪ The Beggar reproves him, then turns to practical advice.
▪ Ma, I just need some practical advice.
▪ But it won't be all competitive spirit; the evening will also include practical advice and last-minute tips for Christmas entertaining.
▪ I learned to depend on him for practical advice under fire.
▪ And giving young parents a source of friendly, practical advice.
▪ I hope that this book will be a major source of practical advice and assistance and will encourage the return of practitioners.
▪ Full interior design service available as well as friendly practical advice on curtains, upholstery and colour schemes.
▪ Sets out an action plan, with practical advice on managing changing demand at the neighbourhood level.
alternative
▪ Hislop believes that, as crop subsidies fall, farmers will see woodland creation as a practical alternative.
▪ They say there is no practical alternative.
application
▪ In the practical application of his theory Acton became much more pragmatic.
▪ That fact was given practical application almost at once.
▪ Furthermore, the theory of rhetoric can have practical application.
▪ Others see even more practical applications for these virtual places.
▪ Project work and its practical application forms a key part of the programme.
▪ Models based on soap films have many practical applications in the investigation of minimum surface areas.
▪ Reports to date are interesting, if somewhat inconclusive, and without immediate practical application.
▪ Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
approach
▪ Sixthly, on environmental controls, I congratulate the Government on their more sensible and practical approach.
▪ One of the best and most practical approaches to handling this problem is the pretest.
▪ Jane took a more practical approach.
▪ So, let us take a more practical approach to your problem.
▪ Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues.
▪ I have a much more practical approach than a visionary.
▪ We take a practical approach by working together with our customers to achieve the right solution.
▪ Teachers who have already taught pronunciation will appreciate its imaginative and practical approach.
aspect
▪ In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.
▪ Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem.
▪ Robert Scopes presents both the principles and practical aspects in an easily comprehended, readable manner.
▪ This uses a system for monitoring hospital patients to highlight the practical aspects of the language.
▪ The aims of the programme were to obtain data and evidence for the technical and practical aspects of feasibility.
▪ In the past two decades, work on theoretical and practical aspects of artificial intelligence has stimulated our concepts of mind.
▪ There were practical aspects, too, including plant tours, showing where the exits were, what the alarms sounded like.
▪ The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler.
consequence
▪ Unless the slope of the baseline drift is very steep the decline has few practical consequences except to sharpen competitive pressures.
▪ When families fall short, society has to cope with the practical consequences.
▪ The practical consequences of time limits which are not of the essence of the contract are such that they are virtually meaningless.
▪ By this time, Leibniz was moving outward toward an application of his system with practical consequences.
▪ The regime is abstract in concept, political in intent and largely insensitive to practical consequences in a highly practical industry.
▪ The practical consequence has previously been that prolonged autoradiographic techniques were required.
▪ For some Ajdabiyans the cases of Carnation Milk provided an amusing commentary on official inconsistency without having any practical consequences.
▪ This is a nicety, perhaps with no practical consequences.
consideration
▪ The choice between these two approaches will be governed by practical considerations such as the layout of the building.
▪ The victims of Jinnah were as oblivious as he to the mathematics of minorities and to practical considerations.
▪ That such a prolific goalscorer should choose a club renowned for their attacking play demonstrates the practical considerations which influenced his decision.
▪ There is also a practical consideration.
▪ There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
▪ Before you embark on the decoration, however, you need to have the practical considerations firmly in mind.
▪ This is probably because of the ethical and practical considerations.
▪ In the present case Mr. Glick was fully entitled to, and did, point to practical considerations to reinforce his argument.
difficulty
▪ But such practical difficulties can easily be overstated.
▪ It is a murky field at best, and the practical difficulties in the Viet-namese environment were daunting.
▪ It also raised serious practical difficulties.
▪ The practical difficulty, of course, is to ensure that a partner agrees to a dormant status.
▪ In addition to these practical difficulties, there are more principled objections.
▪ There are practical difficulties with parallel computers.
▪ Selecting from publishers' catalogues throws up at least two knotty practical difficulties.
▪ For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff - until practical difficulties began to take their toll.
effect
▪ The guidelines, due for final approval next year, will have little practical effect.
▪ But the practical effect was to establish the precedent that the future of Northern Ireland was negotiable.
▪ The practical effect is that that gives them precedence of speaking in Parliament.
▪ Too negligible to have practical effect in classical physics, it adds up over trillions of years.
▪ Or it may have little or no practical effect.
▪ In practical effect, it meant that Chun could dictate the selection of his successor.
▪ Nor were these arguments without practical effect.
▪ But panslavism had little practical effect on policy: it was a matter of popular mood rather than of official ideology.
experience
▪ The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works.
▪ They provide practical experience in all facets of the funeral service from embalming to transporting remains.
▪ Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role.
▪ The programme included practical experience in Breathing, movement with apparatus, and movement accompaniment.
▪ Constructive criticism of McClellan's system is difficult since so few librarians have any practical experience of its application.
▪ Only an expert after much study and practical experience will achieve consistently good responses.
▪ As a consequence there is no practical experience and no feedback to modify the approach in the design of subsequent estates.
▪ As with the development of all skills, the theoretical approach described in this chapter needs to be supplemented by practical experience.
guide
▪ It's increasingly popular and this book's a practical guide to using the remedies.
▪ This is the how-to, practical guide that will help you avoid opportunistic detours and stay on track.
▪ My colleagues on Fishkeeping Answers have produced a practical guide to tank safety in their November issue which is on sale now.
▪ Birmingham Midshires has launched a debt counselling service in the form of a practical guide for home owners.
▪ And a more detailed practical guide to involving users would have been good.
▪ Feel free to use the cakes here as a source of inspiration as well as a practical guide.
▪ This is a practical guide to real-time programming, the programs provided having been tested and proved.
help
▪ The social worker can give practical help and advice on all these tasks.
▪ They may also be able to tell you about local organisations which give practical help with gardening or decorating.
▪ Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
▪ They cater for people who need both nursing supervision and a lot of practical help.
▪ Mr Ling also offered me practical help.
▪ Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪ There seems to be a coldness at the heart of much hard-left philosophy, where theory takes precedent over practical help.
implication
▪ These purely doctrinal responses were, however, of lesser importance than one practical implication of Luxemburgism.
▪ It also has practical implications for social policy.
▪ Often this arises from the absence of any realistic concept of the practical implications of retirement.
▪ The test not only has directly practical implications in the diagnosis of disease.
▪ Understanding women's concerns about health has practical implications for the development of health and social policy.
▪ The practical implications of these matters are very real and may escape some of us microwave aces, for example.
▪ We considered the practical implications of our findings, and the potential contradictions faced by both parents and health professionals.
▪ The practical implications of the two are quite different, however.
importance
▪ A better understanding of the implications and consequences of economic and political development policies is of immediate practical importance.
▪ Science has long been of prime practical importance to civilization as a whole.
▪ It is a matter of practical importance that teachers can argue this case.
▪ Of more practical importance than estimates of global annual average temperature increase is that of resulting regional and seasonal changes.
▪ The debate had no practical importance, nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research.
▪ Inputs are thus of great practical importance, but they are only the means, not the ends, of competitive endeavour.
▪ The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident.
information
▪ Increasing relevance to practical information retrieval.
▪ A lot of practical information is exchanged, as well as emotional support.
▪ Holmes provides practical information about the hidden dangers of food and how to overcome them.
▪ Now here's some practical information about the day-to-day tasks involved in working in a shop.
▪ For those wanting to satisfy that itch there is an extensive factual section with each trek giving lots of useful practical information.
issue
▪ However, this now raises an important practical issue.
▪ This generation had come of age working on practical issues of feminism, pacifism, civil rights, and environmentalism.
▪ Theoretical reasoning is a dead letter to the child unless it is closely anchored to practical issues.
▪ While practical issues of meshing motherhood with modern life loom large, the greatest challenges are still psychological.
▪ Even observation is constrained by practical issues of access.
▪ From it follows a series of hardline implications for the other practical issues.
▪ For many people, this practical issue will overshadow the refinements of scientific investigation, but this would be a pity.
▪ That is not a theoretical matter, but a practical issue.
joke
▪ They went in for practical jokes, which at times could be trying.
▪ The sheer viciousness of Peggy Soong's practical joke choked her.
▪ At first I thought it was an enormous practical joke.
▪ Perhaps the loss of sunlight was behind a small eruption of quarrels and pointless practical jokes.
▪ All his life, he enjoyed heedless and extreme practical jokes.
▪ He is, however, not a trustworthy sprite, and delights in practical jokes of a bizarre and sometimes gruesome nature.
▪ Had he been brought here as some kind of practical joke?
knowledge
▪ It's the practical knowledge that is far more important than the academic.
▪ The class would later serve Amelia in good stead, giving her her first practical knowledge of how engines worked.
▪ It will have to be backed up by a degree of practical knowledge and competence.
▪ In order to clarify this Oakeshott distinguishes between two sorts of knowledge, which he calls technical and practical knowledge.
▪ If they already have some practical knowledge they will be itching to get on to the floor!
▪ The lay members are intended to bring industrial experience and practical knowledge to bear on the issues coming before the tribunal.
▪ Genuine understanding implies at least some practical knowledge of what level of interest rates are likely to be charged for loans.
▪ Whenever a nurse gives an injection or changes a dressing she demonstrates the application of practical knowledge.
level
▪ However, Figure 2.1 does seem to clarify several aspects of the undergraduate curriculum at a more practical level.
▪ We may indeed find the concept horrifying, but we do not relate to it on a practical level.
▪ At a practical level, we see fair play, and deliver the groceries.
▪ On a practical level, he needed more graduates.
▪ It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance.
▪ We must continue to study the new centralised global environment at both the theoretical and the practical levels.
▪ On a more practical level, two points should be made.
man
▪ The members of the second were practical men who were leaders and men of action in the material world.
▪ She had heard that he was a handsome horseman and a practical man.
▪ But even the newly practical men and women of complexity need to be allowed a bit of fun.
▪ You are a practical man, Doctor.
▪ The problem of the historic development of nineteenth-century society led both theorists and even practical men deep into the remoter past.
▪ So Ahab does what all practical men would do.
▪ John Coffin was no exception; a clever and practical man, he was unable to manage his own electric oven.
▪ As a practical man, the dairyman might laugh at love, but love has a habit of changing people's lives.
matter
▪ The Secretary of State smiles, but those are practical matters involving extremely important people within the local authorities.
▪ As a practical matter, the wisdom of tax-cutting is open to debate.
▪ Desperately, she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters.
▪ As a practical matter, the minimum wage is irrelevant to people at the bottom of the wage scale.
▪ Indeed, leave all practical matters to me for all time.
▪ Which as a practical matter is usually about twelve years and can be as little as eight.
▪ Nolan J. accepted that, as a practical matter, Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments.
▪ The challenge of making do without the domesticating power of women was, for many men, a practical matter.
necessity
▪ So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice.
▪ The need for reliability is not only ethically desirable, it is generally a practical necessity.
▪ Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls, and the chief hope was for a good bargain.
▪ Indeed, for many municipalities a concern with cost containment and with stimulating private investment became a practical necessity.
point
▪ On a practical point I noticed that the colours weren't as bright on the low radiation monitors that I used.
▪ On a practical point, finally, the crisis raised a serious problem.
▪ An important practical point to consider when sending out mailings of this kind is to decide exactly where to send the package.
▪ In the last three chapters, we have talked about dejobbed work from a practical point of view.
▪ Here, although the description is detailed, some practical points are missing - it is not a complete workman's blue-print.
▪ From a purely practical point of view, there were few alternatives.
▪ Clearly, it is important from the practical point of view.
▪ The technique of solving academic problems is almost the same as the technique of writing a legal opinion upon a practical point.
problem
▪ At the same time there are a series of practical problems affecting all consultation with users.
▪ The practical problem, Marvin told me, was that he is no longer able to improve his maple tree stands.
▪ Many theoretical and practical problems remain to be studied and this research project will tackle some of them.
▪ Is there a serious practical problem that Congress needs to address?
▪ It also provides a counselling service and a range of literature with advice on emotional as well as practical problems.
▪ Both theoretical and practical problems exist in fashioning out conceptual frameworks for the development of the continent.
▪ It's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague, but there would have been practical problems anyway.
▪ To stay in the world, parents have to solve the practical problems.
purpose
▪ For purely practical purposes, I deal with the artists' money for recording and touring expenses.
▪ Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
▪ At the same time it also illustrates the practical purpose narrative theory may have for the reading of individual works of literature.
▪ For all practical purposes, it has a nationwide corporate network, just like the big firms.
▪ For all practical purposes, the Holy Spirit could be discounted.
▪ Yet for all practical purposes, Windows was Macintosh.
▪ Chance variations have a natural spread across the normal curve as explained above, for practical purposes.
▪ For all practical purposes, the Army of the Potomac was on its own.
reality
▪ Unfortunately practical reality fell somewhat short of the theoretical ideal.
▪ Clearly the proliferation of little municipal governments runs counter to this philosophical wisdom and practical reality.
▪ Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise.
▪ At this time of year, when the garden still is a malleable dream, we must nevertheless consider practical realities.
▪ Put simply, they believe aid fails due to the dichotomy between theory at a distance and practical reality at the local level.
▪ Altogether, this was the conclusion which best corresponded to the practical realities of the day.
▪ People wanted to believe it, and no practical reality came into conflict with it.
▪ While the latter is the practical reality in many cases it is certainly not the legal position.
reason
▪ This is both for practical reasons and as a matter of public policy.
▪ We have no practical reason for being.
▪ For practical reasons, she enlisted the help of the air force.
▪ Men who defect for practical reasons are easier to manage and maintain.
▪ Aside from purely humanitarian reasons, there are other more practical reasons for aiming to control pain.
▪ Again, there was a practical reason for using silver rather than other metals such as brass.
▪ There was, however, a very practical reason for the facing of the galleries in these directions.
▪ Many practical reasons for this are, I suppose, quite justly given.
skill
▪ The processes are described as: problem solving skills; practical skills; language skills; and technical skills.
▪ Both of them possessed the practical skills of ropework and carpentry to look after the raft properly and to teach the others.
▪ Saturday I made a patchwork cot cover by hand, I have good practical skills.
▪ State board licensing examinations vary, but they usually consist of written and oral parts and include a demonstration of practical skills.
▪ Our research was on teaching pupils practical skills in Biology and Physics.
▪ She taught People how to use public transportation, how to open a bank account and other practical skills.
solution
▪ Provided the room is big enough, room divider doors are a practical solution and can be an attractive feature.
▪ Sometimes this shared understanding may lead to more practical solutions.
▪ Odeneal was swayed by the eloquence and truth of Joseph's argument, and submitted a practical solution.
▪ They do not offer practical solutions.
▪ Mr Holt is keen to find a practical solution to better protect the environment.
▪ These two sides would slug it out, and a practical solution would emerge somewhere between the two positions.
▪ In itself this elusiveness is testimony to just how enormously difficult it is to find practical solutions to Britain's economic problems.
▪ The search continues for a practical solution.
support
▪ In general, practical support between relatives seems highly gendered, with women much more involved than men.
▪ Emotional and practical support for both needs to continue after the birth.
▪ Salvation Army Have projects in Wandsworth and Lothian offering emotional and practical support and recreational facilities.
▪ But most research studies suggest that sharing practical support is more characteristic of women.
▪ It was important for the lenders to give normal and practical support.
▪ I made a similar argument in chapter 1 about practical support in contemporary society.
▪ They didn't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant, some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support.
▪ The appeal was launched in October to encourage the local community to demonstrate practical support for the project.
training
▪ As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training.
▪ Through the provision of information and practical training opportunities it encourages a positive and practical approach to environmental issues.
▪ Despite his success, the senate objected both to practical training and to Stuart's radical politics.
▪ The question of the assessment of practical training was a difficult one.
▪ Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training.
▪ His practical training started at his father's mill, where he was given a lathe and built small working steam engines.
▪ It was an impressive practical training, for a handful of apprentice midwives delivered about 1,300 women every year.
▪ The Agricultural Training Board supports a wide range of practical training projects for which farmers and farm workers can form local groups.
use
▪ Complexity was neither necessary nor desirable; it was of no practical use and it solved nothing in the end.
▪ The use of the null hypothesis does have one very practical use.
▪ This is the sharp end of modern cartography, a revolution in processing geographic data for practical uses.
▪ This is almost certainly the first practical use of lunar materials to be attempted.
▪ For computational linguists the over-riding concern is their practical use.
▪ He made practical use of the widest possible range of phenomena.
▪ Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues?
▪ Perhaps before the decorative uses of stone evolved the practical use dominated.
value
▪ Because of its great practical value, the book is very unique and very useful.
▪ Telecommuting is now reaching the mass market, where it is not as picturesque but has more practical value.
▪ If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour.
▪ As such, it has important symbolic as well as great practical value.
▪ The search facility has the practical value of making it quicker and simpler to find your place in the recording.
▪ In addition to their great theoretical significance, the Euler-Lagrange equations provide calculational procedures of remarkable power and practical value. 9.
▪ Special importance is attached to producing results accessible and of practical value to those whose lives are being studied.
▪ Alas, it was said to have been of not much practical value.
way
▪ Our goal will always be to serve the people of Britain in a positive and practical way.
▪ Lured by the excitement of plate tectonics, some felt that earth science would be a practical way to apply their knowledge.
▪ In the following chapter you will find some practical ways of helping this process still further.
▪ Some suggestions for achieving both and putting them together in a practical way is the subject of the rest of this section.
▪ A practical way forward for some centres may be the use of Work Experience modules.
▪ This is a clearly-stated objective that is a feasible and practical way of dealing with finances.
▪ He had used this in a practical way in solving problems with which the helicopter abounds.
▪ The practical ways are divided into Karma Yoga, the way of work, and Jnana the way of intellect.
work
▪ Discussion should take place regarding the learning methods, i.e. practical work, discussions, role play, tutorials and individual study.
▪ If the building is rented, there is little opportunity for practical work except for some fevered activity on Sunday.
▪ Like Alan, Mark saw the practical work as a game, but unlike Alan he refused to play it.
▪ For example, few schemes incorporated practical work using equipment.
▪ There are variations in the way mental, oral and practical work are incorporated into a scheme.
▪ The course also includes assessment of practical work and investigation.
▪ The programme for each of the training days contains formal talks, group practical work, and plenty of time for discussion.
▪ It was intended that assessment was made through observation, practical work and discussion during normal lessons.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for all practical purposes
▪ For all practical purposes, the cleanup of the oil spill is complete.
▪ For all practical purposes, the country is bankrupt.
▪ But, for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift.
▪ Computerized free language indexing is, for all practical purposes, the same as natural language indexing.
▪ Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us.
▪ Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
▪ The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes, for cutting and pasting.
▪ Yet for all practical purposes, Windows was Macintosh.
in general/practical/financial etc terms
▪ A joint communiqué issued after the meetings was couched in general terms and did not refer to the cessation of hostilities.
▪ I can understand why the whole phlogiston business would have been thought less than important in practical terms.
▪ Rather than talking in general terms about the desirability of renewal, he began to talk in concrete terms of a timetable.
▪ These will be stated in general terms for the whole allocation.
▪ They are, in practical terms, the experts.
▪ They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well.
▪ Those aspects of the business not capable of being expressed in financial terms may have an important effect on its success.
▪ Yet in intellectual and to some extent in practical terms her attitudes were overwhelmingly conservative.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a type of floor covering that is simple, practical, and cheap
▪ Automakers are trying to develop a practical electric car design.
▪ Babysitting coupons are a practical gift any parent will love.
▪ Campbell considers himself a practical man.
▪ He's really smart and really practical - he can fix anything.
▪ Liederman offers practical advice about coping with losing your job.
▪ Small economy cars are more practical if you live in the city.
▪ The company specializes in making practical footwear for the leisure sports market.
▪ Voters make their choices based on practical considerations.
▪ We have to be practical and not spend so much money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time, pupils are also exposed to one practical application of the microcomputer which will be relevant outside school.
▪ Modifications and additions will be needed to suit practical cases.
▪ Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
▪ Sometimes this shared understanding may lead to more practical solutions.
▪ The consumption of ducks has increased in recent years, so it may be practical to define the various classes of ducks.
▪ There are practical assessments, orals and so on.
▪ This mapping is spiritual, but also practical, for people need to know the patterns of nature.
▪ You are often the first to join societies, to give practical help, to volunteer your practical skills all round.
II.nounEXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We've got our chemistry practical tomorrow morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, in electronics practicals there used to be a large number of boys who'd done electronics at school.
▪ The number of hours spent in lectures, tutorials or practicals varies for each individual.
▪ We got on with the practicals while the staff held a meeting to discuss how to control the epidemic.