{
  "id": "practice.skill",
  "term": "practice",
  "sense": "skill",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 21,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a regular repeat of an action to develop skill",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "repeats.action",
      "action.deed",
      "skill.ability",
      "development.growth",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "repeats of an action occur with regular frequency to enable growth in ability",
    "novel_properties": [
      "routine development",
      "progressive refinement",
      "structured repetition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The daily drilling of the US Navy's nuclear submarine crews ensures flawless reactor response during emergencies.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pianist Martha Argerich rehearsed Chopin's Étude Op. 10 No. 4 daily for a year before her 1965 Warsaw performance.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel developers run automated test suites on every code commit to maintain system stability.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "practice is a kind of action"
    },
    {
      "id": "skill.ability",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "practice enables skill"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "culture.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "practice",
    "practiced",
    "practices",
    "practicing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added development.growth and regular.frequency to components; they are essential for 'regular repeat... to develop'. Definition correct and unchanged per preference (1)."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-practice.skill"
}