practicals
- 1Plural of practical.
Students must pass both the written exams and the laboratory practicals to graduate.
The biology practicals were scheduled for Friday afternoons throughout the term.
Note
A regular plural that serves several trades at once. In British schooling, practicals are the hands-on parts of an exam, or laboratory sessions more generally. On a film set they are working props, along with the lamps seen in frame as part of the scenery. Only the noun takes the -s; the adjective practical never does, so practical skills stays as it is.
practicals is a form of practical
practical, noun: A section of an exam in which the candidate must demonstrate a skill in person rather than in writing. Full entry
- Forms
- practicalpracticals plural
- Spelling
- practical → practicals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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