Course

[kɔːs] or [kɔrs]

解释:

(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'.

(noun.) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; 'he took a course in basket weaving'; 'flirting is not unknown in college classes'.

(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'.

(noun.) (construction) a layer of masonry; 'a course of bricks'.

(noun.) part of a meal served at one time; 'she prepared a three course meal'.

(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'.

(noun.) general line of orientation; 'the river takes a southern course'; 'the northeastern trend of the coast'.

(verb.) hunt with hounds; 'He often courses hares'.

(verb.) move swiftly through or over; 'ships coursing the Atlantic'.

格雷西校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.

(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

(n.) The menses.

(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

(v. t.) To run through or over.

(v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

手打:苏珊

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Race, career.[2]. Route, way, track, road.[3]. Direction, bearing, point of compass, line of progress.[4]. Round, beat.[5]. Progress, process.[6]. Regularity, order, succession, turn.[7]. Deportment, line of conduct, manner of proceeding.[8]. Series, system, methodical arrangement.[9]. Set of dishes (at a banquet).

v. a. Pursue, hunt, chase, run after, give chase to.

v. n. Run, move swiftly.

录入:提托

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Order, sequence, continuity, direction, progress, line, way, mode, race,career, road, route, series, passage, succession, round, manner, plan, conduct,method

ANT:Disorder, discussion, solution, interruption, deviation, hindrance, error,conjecture, hazard, speculation, caprice

编辑:西尔维亚

解释:

n. the act of running: the road or tract on which one runs: the direction pursued: a voyage: a race: regular progress from point to point: habitual method of procedure: a prescribed series as of lectures &c.: each of the successive divisions of a meal as dinner: conduct: a range of bricks or stones on the same level in building: (naut.) one of the sails bent to a ship's lower yards as the main-sail called the main-course the fore-sail or fore-course and the cross-jack or mizzen-course: (pl.) the menses.—v.t. to run chase or hunt after.—v.i. to move with speed as in a race or hunt.—ns. Cours′er a runner: a swift horse: one who courses or hunts; Cours′ing hunting with greyhounds; Cours′ing-joint a joint between two courses of masonry.—In course in regular order: (coll.) of course; Of course by natural consequence or by settled rule.

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