COURSE


Meaning of COURSE in English

vt to run through or over.

2. course ·noun the menses.

3. course ·noun the ground or path traversed; track; way.

4. course ·noun the act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

5. course ·noun the succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

6. course ·noun that part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

7. course ·noun method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

8. course ·vt to cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

9. course ·vt to run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

10. course ·noun customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

11. course ·noun the lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, ·etc.

12. course ·vi to move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

13. course ·noun motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

14. course ·noun a continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

15. course ·vi to run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of lancashire.

xvi. course ·noun 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.

xvii. course ·noun motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

xviii. course ·noun 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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