Betekenis van practical In het Nederlands

• 0 relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas or imagination:

  • Qualifications are important but practical experience is always a plus.

  • The service offers young people practical advice on finding a job.

  • What's the use of theoretical knowledge that has no practical application?

  • Dr Frampton is in charge, but for all practical purposes, her assistant runs the office.

• 1 suitable for the situation in which something is used:

  • I tend to wear clothes that are practical rather than fashionable.

  • Heavy boots aren't very practical for running.

• 2 able to provide effective solutions to problems:

  • She has lots of interesting ideas, but they're not very practical.

  • We need someone practical who can cope with a crisis.

• 3 able to be done or put into action:

  • [ + to infinitive ] It's simply not practical to divide the work between so many people.

• 4 a class or exam in a scientific or technical subject in which students do things rather than just write or talk about them:

  • We had to dissect a worm and a frog in our biology practical today.

• 5 relating to actual experience or to the use of knowledge in activities rather than to knowledge only or ideas:

  • I know you’ve been trained as a teacher, but do you have any practical teaching experience?

  • You’ve got to learn to be practical and save your money.

• 6 fitting the needs of a particular situation in a helpful way; helping to solve a problem or difficulty; effective or suitable:

  • We didn’t want to spend the night at a motel, but it just wasn’t practical to do the trip in one day.

  • In some cities, it isn’t practical to keep the subways operating all night because there aren’t enough passengers.

  • I wear clothes that are practical rather than fashionable.