course
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /kɔː(ɹ)s/, X-SAMPA: /kO:(r\)s/
- (US) enPR: kô(r)s, IPA: /kɔː(ɹ)s/, /koʊɹs/, X-SAMPA: /kO:(r)s/, /koUr\s/
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: coarse
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
- (Tasmania) IPA: /kɜːs/
- Homophone: curse
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Noun [edit]
course (plural courses)
- A path, sequence, development, or evolution.
- The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- His illness ran its course.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- A chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence or steps
- A learning program, as in a school.
- I need to take a French course to pep up.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan
- The itinerary of a race.
- The cross-country course passes the canal.
- A racecourse.
- A part of a meal.
- We offer seafood as the first course.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
- (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) A string on a lute
- (golf) A golf course.
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from course (noun)
Translations [edit]
onward movement
itinerary of a race
period of learning
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part of a meal
trajectory of a ball etc.
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direction of movement of a vessel
intended passage for ship
row of bricks
path taken by a waterway
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Verb [edit]
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).
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey.
Translations [edit]
Flow
Pursue
Adverb [edit]
course (not comparable)
- colloquial variant of of course
Statistics [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Feminine of cours.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
course f (plural courses)
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Jèrriais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Noun [edit]
course f (plural courses)
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