Etymology : Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cursus, from currere to run; more at CAR
Pronunciation : kOrs, kors
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. direction; part of a meal; series; layer; series of lessons or classes on a particular subject; unit of studies (especially on a university level). hunt, pursue; run over; race. course\course\, v. i.
2. to run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of lancashire.
3. to move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.course \course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. coursed (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. coursing.].
4. to run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. we coursed him at the heels.
5. to cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
6. to run through or over. the bounding steed courses the dusty plain.course \course\ (k?rs), n. [f. cours, course, l. cursus, fr. currere to run. see:
current.].
7. the act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. and when we had finished our course from tyre, we came to ptolemais. xxi.
8. 2. the ground or path traversed; track; way. the same horse also run the round course at newmarket.
9. 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. westward the course of empire takes its way.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. by course of nature and of law. day and night, seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, shall hold their course.
13. method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. my lord of york commends the plot and the general course of the action. by perseverance in the course prescribed. you hold your course without remorse.
14. 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.
15. the succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. he appointed the courses of the priests viii.
16. 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.
17. (arch.) a continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
18. (naut.) the lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
19. pl. (physiol.) the menses.
20. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
21. The ground or path traversed; track; way.
22. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
23. 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.
24. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
25. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
26. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
27. 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.
28. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
29. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
30. A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
31. The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
32. The menses.
33. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
34. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
35. To run through or over.
36. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
37. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. 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" education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" 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" a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" 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" general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares" move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic".
38. 1. Course is often used in the expression `of course', or instead of `of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
39. The course of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, is the route along which it is travelling. Aircraft can avoid each other by going up and down, as well as by altering course to left or right The tug was seaward of the Hakai Passage on a course that diverged from the Calvert Island coastline.
40. A course of action is an action or a series of actions that you can do in a particular situation. My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic Vietnam is trying to decide on its course for the future.
41. You can refer to the way that events develop as, for example, the course of history or the course of events. a series of decisive naval battles which altered the course of history.
42. A course is a series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject. a course in business administration I'm shortly to begin a course on the modern novel. see also:
access course, correspondence course, refresher course, sandwich course.
43. A course of medical treatment is a series of treatments that a doctor gives someone. Treatment is supplemented with a course of antibiotics to kill the bacterium.
44. A course is one part of a meal. The lunch was excellent, especially the first course. a three-course dinner.
45. In sport, a course is an area of land where races are held or golf is played, or the land over which a race takes place. Only 12 seconds separated the first three riders on the Bickerstaffe course.
46. The course of a river is the channel along which it flows. Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.
47. If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time. In the course of the 1930s steel production in Britain approximately doubled We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man. = during.
48. If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life. If police are carrying arms as a matter of course then doesn't it encourage criminals to carry them?.
49. If a ship or aircraft is on course, it is travelling along the correct route. If it is off course, it is no longer travelling along the correct route. The ill fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.
50. If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it. The company is on course for profits of £20m in the next financial year.
51. If something runs its course or takes its course, it develops naturally and comes to a natural end. They estimated that between 17,000 and 20,000 cows would die before the epidemic had run its course.
52. If you stay the course, you finish something that you have started, even though it has become very difficult. The oldest president in American history had stayed the course for two terms.
53. If something changes or becomes true in the course of time, it changes or becomes true over a long period of time. In the course of time, many of their myths become entangled.
54. in due course: see:
due.
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