practice vs program

practice

noun
  • A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine. 

  • The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts. 

  • Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory. 

  • A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice. 

  • The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members. 

  • An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition. 

  • The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. 

  • Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice. 

  • Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. 

  • A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. 

program

noun
  • A particular mindset or method of doing things. 

  • A set of principle goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate 

  • A set of structured activities. 

  • A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity. 

  • A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television. 

  • A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task. 

verb
  • To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task. 

  • To develop (software) by writing program code. 

  • To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast. 

  • To put together the schedule of an event. 

  • To cause to automatically behave in a particular way. 

How often have the words practice and program occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )