exercise
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Is exercise a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of exercise?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.Examples: "The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay."; "Where noyse of armes, or vew of martiall guize / Might not reuiue desire of knightly exercize."; "an exercise of the eyes and memory"countable
2. (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.Examples: "Swimming is good exercise."; "I like to do my exercises every morning before breakfast."; "I do crosswords for mental exercise."countableuncountable
3. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.Examples: "But patience is more oft the exerciſe / Of Saints, the trial of thir fortitude,"countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.Examples: "I exercise at the gym every day."intransitive
2. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.Examples: "The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy."; "She is going to exercise her right to vote."; "The people of the land haue vsed oppression, and exercised robbery, and haue vexed the poore and needie: yea, they haue oppressed the stranger wrongfully."transitive
3. (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.Examples: "exercised with pain"; "Where pain of unextinguiſhable fire / Muſt exerciſe us without hope of end"
4. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.Examples: "And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men."; "Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary