Course
[kɔːs] or [kɔrs]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Typist: Silvia
Definition
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.
Typed by Ferris
Examples
- I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Of course--why not? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Of course we are very careful and we make no disturbance in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It slid from its balance, owing to the change in its course against the currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She affected to sneeze again, declared she was enrhumée, and then proceeded volubly to recount her courses en fiacre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I say that, on that day, each knight ran three courses, and cast to the ground three antagonists. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For this straw was used, mixed with the clay; and stubble was also used in the different courses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It looked, indeed, as if but two courses were open: one to starve, the other to surrender or be captured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are used chiefly in the sport of coursing, a work for which their peculiar shape, strength, keenness of sight and speed make them exceedingly well fitted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This, with the tears coursing down her fair old face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The crisp, fresh mountain air outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new life and new courage coursing through me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Oliver looked up at the windows, with tears of happy expectation coursing down his face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yes, yes, give me a coroner who is a good coursing man, said Mr. Vincy, jovially. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For they say he's been losing money for years, though nobody would think so, to see him go coursing and keeping open house as they do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The fighting blood of my Virginian sires coursed hot through my veins. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They had been lectured at, from their tenderest years; coursed, like little hares. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A large tear or two coursed down his hollow cheek. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Both coursed the same thought till it was lost in sadness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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