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Course Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Course?
[n] a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"
[n] education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [n] 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" [n] (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [n] part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" [n] 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" [n] general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [n] 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" [adv] as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [v] hunt (game) with hounds; "He often courses hares" [v] move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave" Synonyms | Synonyms for Course: class | course of action | course of instruction | course of study | flow | line | naturally | of course | path | row | run | track | trend Related Terms | Find terms related to Course: academic specialty | act | adit | advance | advancement | advancing | affluence | afflux | affluxion | agora | aim | air lane | algorithm | ambit | amphitheater | angular motion | antepast | approach | aqueduct | archery ground | area | arena | array | arsis | articulation | ascending | ascent | assuredly | athletic field | attack | auditorium | axial motion | azimuth | backflowing | background | backing | backward motion | badminton court | band | bank | baseball field | basketball court | bear garden | bearing | beat | bed | bedding | belt | bent | billiard parlor | boil | bout | bowl | bowling alley | bowling green | boxing ring | broil | Brownian movement | bull ring | buzz | by all means | campaign | 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perambulate | peregrinate | peregrination | pererrate | performance | periodicity | pilgrimage | piloting | piste | pit | place | plan | plan of action | plate | platform | playground | playing field | playroom | pleasure trip | plenum | plunging | ply | point | policy | polity | polo ground | pool hall | poolroom | portion | position paper | positively | pour | powder train | practice | precinct | primrose path | principles | prize ring | procedure | proceeding | process | program | progress | progression | progressiveness | promotion | proseminar | prowl after | public square | pulse | purlieu | putting green | quadrivium | quarter | queue | race | racecourse | racket court | radial motion | random motion | range | range over | rank | reconnoiter | recurrence | reflowing | refluence | reflux | refresher course | regression | regurgitate | reticulation | retrogression | revolution | ride to hounds | ring | rink | rising | road | roast | roll | roll on | rolling | rolling on | rotation | round | round trip | route | routine | row | rubberneck tour | run | rush | safari | sail | sally | sashay | scale | scamper | scene | scene of action | scenery | scent | scheme | scientific education | scoot | scope | scour | scour the country | scout | scurry | sea lane | sea trip | seam | second helping | seminar | sequel | sequence | series | service | serving | set | setting | shakedown cruise | shelf | shikar | shoot | shortcut | side dish | sideward motion | signs | single file | sinking | site | skating rink | soaring | soccer field | spate | specialty | spectrum | speed | spell | sphere | spoor | sport | sprint | squared circle | squash court | stadium | stage | stage set | stage setting | stalk | start | steerage | steering | step | sternway | still-hunt | story | stratum | stream | stretch | string | study | style | subdiscipline | subject | subsiding | substratum | succession | superstratum | sure | surely | surge | surge back | swath | sweep | swing | system | systole | 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period | collision course | collision course | correspondence course | course of lectures | course session | coursework | current | damp course | damp-proof course | dessert | direction | drain | dribble | eddy | education | educational activity | entree | extension course | facility | filter | flow | flow from | flush | golf course | golf links | gush | gutter | hunt | hunt down | inside track | installation | instruction | jet | layer | lecture | lecturing | lesson | line | links | main course | meal | move | nourishment | nutriment | nutrition | ooze | orientation | orientation course | overflow | overrun | path | pedagogy | pour | propaedeutic | propaedeutics | purl | racecourse | racetrack | raceway | recitation | refresher | refresher course | repast | round | row of bricks | run | run down | run off | run out | run over | seep | seminar | series | spill | starter | steps | stream | stream | surge | sustenance | swath | swirl | teaching | tide | track | track down | trail | trickle | victuals | wall | waste | way | way | way of life | well out | well over | whirl | whirlpool | workshop Course In Webster's Dictionary \Course\ (k?rs), n. [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 events; recurrence 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.
--Macaulay.
11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of
the same height throughout the face or faces of a
building. --Gwilt.
12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged
vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
13. pl. (Physiol.) 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} (k?rst)); 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. |
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