course
IPA: kˈɔrs
noun
- A sequence of events.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- A stage of a meal.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- The itinerary of a race.
- A racecourse.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (golf) A golf course.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- (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) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
verb
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
adverb
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of of course.
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Examples of "course" in Sentences
- This was of course, prevarication.
- The culmination of training is the Commando course.
- It is a given that the peasantry, of course, is class stratified.
- The show presents the cause, the training and of course the dancing.
- He was a teacher of course the bassoon and also of the ensemble class.
- The course of training to which a novice had to submit was protracted.
- This course is a 19 lesson course in the basics of health and wellness.
- Later on, they changed the name of the course to the SAF Commando Course.
- RMR recruit Training and the Commando Course are not for the fainthearted.
- The program is in lieu of participating in the college courses for one semester.
- •course materials the beginning of the course •The learning objectives •course structure
- Hitherto our story has run a rapid course; but now it stays because Malachy _has finished his course_. [
- Of course it had to be taken off to the rock in pieces, and we may almost say _of course_ the ocean offered opposition.
- OLIVIA: I'm being silly, I know -- of course I _ought_ to get married, and _of course_ this is a wonderful chance, and -- HUBERT
- But the real climax is reached when Kelly shouts over the telephone "Of course, in self-defense, you fool, _of course_, in self-defense."
- Starting with a car chase cold is par for the course, of * course* there was going to be a car chase at some point so why not one out of the gate?
- In place of, the Aintree course is of a trying nature we can surely say Aintree is a trying course or the Aintree course is a trying onejust that and nothing more.
- Of course she's played with me -- that sort always does -- but I think I might really have a chance with her, if it weren't for her mother -- horrible old -- no, of _course_ I don't mean that!
- They came to the conclusion that the voltaic current caused decompositions throughout its whole course in the humid conductor, not merely as preliminary to the recompositions spoken of by Grotthuss and Davy, but producing final separation of the elements in the _course_ of the current, and elsewhere than at the poles.
- It has no railway station, which, of course, is a great merit; it's not to have any big blatant hotels or pensions -- nothing but charming bungalow-cottages; there'll be no pier, no band, none of those banal winter-gardens and impossible pleasure palaces that _ces autres_ delight in, and, _of course_, none of those immensely fearful concert parties and pierrots.