Course

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Development in a particular way; progress.
  • noun. Movement in time; duration.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The direction of continuing movement.
  • noun. The route or path taken by something that moves, such as a stream or vehicle.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A designated route or area on which a race is held.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A mode of action or behavior.
  • noun. A typical, natural, or customary manner of proceeding or developing.
  • noun. A systematic or orderly succession; a sequence.
  • noun. A continuous layer of building material, such as brick or tile, on a wall or roof of a building.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A complete body of prescribed studies constituting a curriculum.
  • noun. A unit of such a curriculum.
  • noun. A part of a meal served as a unit at one time.
  • noun. The lowest sail on a mast of a square-rigged ship.
  • noun. A point on the compass, especially the one toward which a vehicle, such as a ship, is moving.
  • intransitive verb. To move swiftly through or over; traverse.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To hunt (game) with hounds.
  • intransitive verb. To set (hounds) to chase game.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed or move swiftly in a certain direction or along a course.
  • intransitive verb. To hunt game with hounds.
  • idiom. (off course) Away from the planned or intended course.
  • idiom. (in due course) At the proper or right time.
  • idiom. (of course) As is to be expected under the circumstances; naturally or obviously.
  • idiom. (of course) Used to indicate assent or agreement.
  • idiom. (on course) Following the planned or intended course.
  • idiom. (run/take) To follow its natural progression or development.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hunt; pursue; chase.
  • To cause to run; force to move with speed.
  • To run through or over: as, the blood courses the winding arteries.
  • To run; pass over or through a course; run or move about: as, the blood courses.
  • To engage in the sport of coursing. See coursing.
  • To dispute in the schools.
  • An obsolete spelling of coarse.
  • noun. An obsolete variant of curse.
  • noun. A running or moving forward or onward; motion forward; a continuous progression or advance.
  • noun. A running in a prescribed direction, or over a prescribed distance; a race; a career.
  • noun. The path, direction, or distance prescribed or laid out for a running or race; the ground or distance walked, run, or sailed over, or to be walked, run, or sailed over, in a race: as, there being no competition, he walked over the course.
  • noun. Hence The space of distance or time, or the succession of stages, through which anything passes or has to pass in its continued progress from first to last; the period or path of progression from begiuning to end: as, the course of a planet, or of a human life.
  • noun. The line or direction of motion; the line in which anything moves: as, the course of a projectile through the air; specifically (nautical), the direction in which a ship is steered in making her way from point to point during a voyage; the point of the compass on which a ship sails.
  • noun. In surveying, a line run with a compass or transit.
  • noun. The continual or gradual advance or progress of anything; the series of phases of a process; the whole succession of characters which anything progressive assumes: as, the course of an argument or a debate; the course of a disease.
  • noun. In tilting, a charge or career of the contestants in the lists; about or round in a tournament; hence, a round at anything, as in a race; a bout or set-to.
  • noun. Order; sequence; rotation; succession of one to another in office, property, dignity, duty, etc.
  • noun. Methodical or regulated motion or procedure; customary or probable sequence of events; recurrence of events according to certain laws.
  • noun. A round or succession of prescribed acts or procedures intended to bring about a particular result: as, a course of medical treatment; a course of training.
  • Word Usage
    "But the real climax is reached when Kelly shouts over the telephone "Of course, in self-defense, you fool, _of course_, in self-defense.""
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    coursed  coursing  
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    Corse  Force  Morse  Norse  bourse  
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