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Meaning of 'course' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Course [ n.]
- The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
- The ground or path traversed; track; way.
- Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
- 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.
- Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
- Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
- Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
- 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.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
- A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
- The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
- The menses.
2 . Course [ 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.
- To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
3 . Course [ v. t.]
- To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
- To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
- To run through or over.

Meaning of 'course' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . course [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (construction) a layer of masonry
Example in sentence:
  • a course of bricks
Meaning (2):
- a body of students who are taught together
Example in sentence:
  • early morning classes are always sleepy
Meaning (3):
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
Example in sentence:
  • flirting is not unknown in college classes;
  • he took a course in basket weaving
Meaning (4):
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
Example in sentence:
  • historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available;
  • the government took a firm course
Meaning (5):
- a mode of action
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (6):
- part of a meal served at one time
Example in sentence:
  • she prepared a three course meal
Meaning (7):
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
Example in sentence:
  • the course had only nine holes;
  • the course was less than a mile
Meaning (8):
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
Example in sentence:
  • the course of the river;
  • the hurricane demolished houses in its path;
  • the track of an animal
Meaning (9):
- general line of orientation
Example in sentence:
  • the northeastern trend of the coast;
  • the river takes a southern course
10 . course [ v]
Meaning (10):
- hunt with hounds
Example in sentence:
  • He often courses hares
Meaning (11):
- move swiftly through or over
Example in sentence:
  • ships coursing the Atlantic
Meaning (12):
- move along, of liquids
Example in sentence:
  • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi;
  • Water flowed into the cave
13 . course [ r]
Meaning (13):
- as might be expected
Example in sentence:
  • naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill

Nearby Words:

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