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COURSE
naturally, of course, course
(adverb) as might be expected; “naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill”
course, course of action
(noun) a mode of action; “if you persist in that course you will surely fail”; “once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place”
course, course of study, course of instruction, class
(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; “he took a course in basket weaving”; “flirting is not unknown in college classes”
course
(noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; “the course had only nine holes”; “the course was less than a mile”
course, row
(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry; “a course of bricks”
course
(noun) part of a meal served at one time; “she prepared a three course meal”
class, form, grade, course
(noun) a body of students who are taught together; “early morning classes are always sleepy”
course, line
(noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments; “the government took a firm course”; “historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available”
course, trend
(noun) general line of orientation; “the river takes a southern course”; “the northeastern trend of the coast”
path, track, course
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves; “the hurricane demolished houses in its path”; “the track of an animal”; “the course of the river”
course
(verb) hunt with hounds; “He often courses hares”
run, flow, feed, course
(verb) move along, of liquids; “Water flowed into the cave”; “the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi”
course
(verb) move swiftly through or over; “ships coursing the Atlantic”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
course (plural courses)
A sequence of events.
A normal or customary sequence.
A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
A learning program, as in a school.
(especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
A stage of a meal.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14
A path that something or someone moves along.
The itinerary of a race.
A racecourse.
The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
(golf) A golf course.
(nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
(navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
(in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
A row or file of objects.
(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
(roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
(textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
(music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
Hyponyms
• bird course
• crash course
• due course
• massive open online course (MOOC)
Verb
course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
(transitive) To run through or over.
(transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
(transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
Etymology 2
Adverb
course (not comparable)
(colloquial) Alternative form of of course
Anagrams
• Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, crouse, source
Source: Wiktionary
Course (krs), n. Etym: [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.]
1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.
2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.
3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.
4. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
5. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument. The course of true love never did run smooth. Shak.
6. Customary or established sequence of evants; re currence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.
7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action. Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. Tennyson.
8. A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. He appointed . . . the courses of the priests 2 Chron. viii. 14.
10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.
11. (Arch.)
Definition: A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.
12. (Naut.)
Definition: The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
13. pl. (Physiol.)
Definition: The menses. In course, in regular succession.
– Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order.
– In the course of, at same time or times during. "In the course of human events." T. Jefferson.
Syn.
– Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.
Course, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (krst)); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.
Course, v. i.
1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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