exercise

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

   “The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay.”

2. isim Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.

   “I like to do my exercises every morning before breakfast. I do calisthenics for physical exercise, and I do crosswords for mental exercise.”

3. isim Such activity of physical nature, for physical fitness (plus also mental benefit).

   “Swimming is good exercise.”

4. isim Such activity of mental nature, for neurocognitive health.

   “Such exercises as puzzles and chess can help keep the mind sharp as we age.”

5. isim A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

   “The law guarantees us the free exercise of our rights.”

6. isim The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

   “I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.”

7. isim That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

   “But patience is more oft the exerciſe / Of Saints, the trial of thir fortitude,”

8. fiil To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

   “to exercise troops or horses;  to exercise one's brain with a puzzle”

9. fiil To perform physical activity for health or training.

   “I exercise at the gym every day.”

10. fiil To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

    “exercise caution”

11. fiil 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.

    “exercised with pain”

12. fiil To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

    “And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.”