practical guide

collocation in English

meaningsofpracticalandguide

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practical
adjective
uk
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
us
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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guide
noun[C]
uk
/ɡaɪd/
us
/ɡaɪd/
a book that gives you the most important information about a ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandguidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpractical guide

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Apracticalguideto applied research.
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Surveying the survey course: apracticalguide.
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Apracticalguidefor calculating indirect costs of disease.
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The book is described as apracticalguideto disease diagnosis, prevention and control.
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The role of environmental accounting is as apracticalguidefor environmental policy.
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It is described as a 'practicalguide', and that is certainly what it is.
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Permutation tests: apracticalguideto resampling methods for testing hypotheses.
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Overall, they provide a usefulpracticalguideto the latest approaches to frost protection.
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Apracticalguideto head injury rehabilitation: a focus on postacute residential treatment.
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As such it is apracticalguidewhich yields considerable insight into the culture and craft of orchestral playing.
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The conflict model also teaches (lesson three) that the law is the mostpracticalguideto analyzing ethical matters.
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Nevertheless, this book is an insightful andpracticalguideto its subject, which is likely to prove extremely popular.
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Not necessarily, for he might be here equating being sound with being useful as apracticalguide.
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To take apracticalguide, the shortest space.
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Philology is more than mere linguistics, more than a hollow theory for armchair academics, since it is apracticalguidefor the people.
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It is important to realise that this volume is not apracticalguideto story-telling in the pursuit of wisdom.
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Unsurprisingly, this slim volume is no theoryheavy treatise, but a light, entertaining, andpracticalguideto the rough and tumble of writing and directing.
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Although those looking for theoretical insights may be disappointed, the book offers a clearly written andpracticalguideto its subject.
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This book aims to provide such students, and less-experienced researchers, with apracticalguideto a range of techniques in glaciology and glacial geomorphology.
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The site has apracticalguideto sources of funding for research and innovation.
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No longer are we talking about abstract messages - this must be apracticalguide.
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I can add that apracticalguideto green procurement will be published later this year.
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It is apracticalguideto those involved in investigating offences under wildlife legislation.
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Why is it that these stipulations are sought in the code of conduct, in thepracticalguide?
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