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The Meaning of course
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(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
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(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
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(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
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(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
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(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
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(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
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(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
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(n.) The menses.
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(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
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(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
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(v. t.) To run through or over.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Synonyms
path
,
form
,
family
,
program
,
stratum
,
grade
,
division
,
programme
,
year
,
class
,
course of instruction
,
course of study
,
trend
,
socio-economic class
,
syllabus
,
social class
,
line
,
row
,
track
,
curriculum
,
course of action
,
category
,
billet
,
short letter
,
assembly line
,
crease
,
melodic phrase
,
argumentation
,
railway line
,
argument
,
bloodline
,
pedigree
,
product line
,
parentage
,
melodic line
,
rail line
,
channel
,
blood
,
contrast
,
business line
,
job
,
phone line
,
line of products
,
line of credit
,
occupation
,
credit line
,
cable
,
personal line of credit
,
line of reasoning
,
pipeline
,
descent
,
demarcation
,
stemma
,
communication channel
,
bank line
,
agate line
,
line of work
,
dividing line
,
stock
,
business
,
furrow
,
lineage
,
wrinkle
,
line of merchandise
,
note
,
origin
,
personal credit line
,
tune
,
line of descent
,
melody
,
telephone circuit
,
line of business
,
air
,
blood line
,
transmission line
,
strain
,
telephone line
,
seam
,
crinkle
,
production line
,
subscriber line
,
ancestry
,
logical argument
,
vogue
,
style
,
tendency
,
movement
,
drift
,
data track
,
rail
,
route
,
runway
,
raceway
,
racecourse
,
cart track
,
caterpillar track
,
way
,
caterpillar tread
,
cut
,
way of life
,
rails
,
trail
,
lead
,
itinerary
,
cartroad
,
racetrack
,
running
,
ground level
,
figure
,
tier
,
flesh
,
frame
,
mark
,
kind
,
chassis
,
physical body
,
grad
,
soma
,
score
,
human body
,
level
,
manikin
,
sort
,
mannikin
,
mannequin
,
conformation
,
phase
,
word form
,
cast
,
gradation
,
configuration
,
variant
,
degree
,
pattern
,
bod
,
signifier
,
shape
,
descriptor
,
variety
,
anatomy
,
physique
,
contour
,
var.
,
material body
,
manakin
,
build
,
wrangle
,
run-in
,
rowing
,
words
,
quarrel
,
dustup
,
run
,
feed
,
flow
,
operate
,
feed in
,
hunt
,
fly the coop
,
work
,
scat
,
run away
,
move
,
turn tail
,
eat
,
flux
,
range
,
guide
,
function
,
lam
,
melt down
,
track down
,
break away
,
head for the hills
,
extend
,
hunt down
,
endure
,
bunk
,
take to the woods
,
consort
,
execute
,
fall
,
feast
,
bleed
,
carry
,
scarper
,
go
,
unravel
,
prey
,
lean
,
play
,
die hard
,
race
,
pass
,
fertilise
,
fertilize
,
run for
,
black market
,
give
,
persist
,
incline
,
hang
,
draw
,
hightail it
,
be given
,
prevail
,
campaign
,
tend
,
escape
,
ladder
,
ply
,
menstruate
,
melt
,
by nature
,
naturally
,
of course
,
career
,
charge
,
flight
,
passage
,
line of achievement
,
public life
,
rush
,
traverse
,
cover
,
cross
,
pass over
,
get over
,
get across
,
cut through
,
cut across
Homophones
coarse
,
corse
Rhymes
borse
,
bourse
,
clotheshorse
,
coarse
,
concourse
,
corse
,
counterforce
,
divorce
,
dorse
,
endorse
,
enforce
,
ensource
,
force
,
forse
,
fourths
,
gorse
,
hoarse
,
horse
,
intercourse
,
laforce
,
midcourse
,
morse
,
morss
,
norse
,
nourse
,
perforce
,
racehorse
,
reinforce
,
remorse
,
sorce
,
source
,
torse
,
torsk
,
vorce
,
whitehorse
,
wilberforce
,
workforce
,
workhorse