practice vs tune-up

practice

noun
  • Repetition of an activity to improve a skill. 

  • 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. 

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

tune-up

noun
  • A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up 

  • A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance 

  • A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes. 

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