course
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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nautical
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transport
Etymology: From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
Inflected forms:
form: courses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: courses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coursing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coursed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coursed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
Tilehurst would in the ordinary course have caught him up and they would have progressed companionably wheel by wheel for as far as their way lay together, discussing the simpler aspects of Tapsfield existence.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: The course of true love never did run smooth.
Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: I need to take a French course.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Philippines
UK
examples: What's your course in university?
—Business studies. And you?
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: We offer seafood as the first course.
gloss: A sequence of events.
pos: noun
examples: He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
examples: His illness ran its course.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
examples: The cross-country course passes the canal.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
examples: The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
examples: A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
gloss: A path that something or someone moves along.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: It was curious to Oakfield to be back on the Ferozepore course, after a six months' interval, which seemed like years. How much had happened in these six months!
gloss: The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
pos: noun
examples: Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
gloss: Menses.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
in-plural
obsolete
examples: The bleeding body signifies as a shameful token of uncontrol, as a failure of physical self-mastery particularly associated with woman in her monthly "courses".
gloss: A row or file of objects.
pos: noun
examples: On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
gloss: A row or file of objects.
pos: noun
gloss: A row or file of objects.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
pos: verb
examples: The oil coursed through the engine.
Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.
He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
gloss: To run through or over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We coursed him at the heels.
gloss: To cause to chase after or pursue game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to course greyhounds after deer
Derived words: access course
aftercourse
assault course
back course
belt course
Bestuzhev course
blocking course
change course
clerk of the course
collision course
confidence course
conversion course
core course
correspondence course
course authoring tool
coursebook
course-correct
course correction
course credit
courseless
courselike
course load
courseload
coursemate
course of action
course of events
coursepack
course par
course to steer
courseware
coursework
course work
cross-course
damp course
double-course
e-course
forecourse
full-course dinner
full-course meal
full-course yellow
golf course
gut course
horses for courses
in due course
in full course
in the course of time
let nature take its course
main course
matter of course
midcourse
middle course
mill course
minicourse
mizzen course
multicourse
obstacle course
of course
off course
on course
ordinary course of business
out-of-course
out of course
palaeocourse
par for the course
postcourse
precourse
protection course
racecourse
refresher course
reverse course
ridge course
ropes course
run its course
sandwich course
service course
single-course
stay the course
stretching course
stringcourse
subcourse
take its course
telecourse
the course of true love never did run smooth
timecourse
weeder course
coursing joint
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ընթացք
roman: əntʻacʻkʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: gediş
lang: Bulgarian
word: последователност
roman: posledovatelnost
lang: Czech
word: průběh
lang: Dutch
word: gang
lang: Finnish
word: järjestys
lang: Finnish
word: (tapahtumien) kulku
lang: Finnish
word: rata
lang: Hindi
word: घटनाक्रम
roman: ghaṭnākram
lang: Italian
word: corso
lang: Latin
word: cursus
lang: Māori
word: hātepe
lang: Middle English
word: cours
lang: Polish
word: ciąg
lang: Polish
word: bieg
lang: Portuguese
word: curso
lang: Spanish
word: transcurso
lang: Spanish
word: curso
lang: Spanish
word: decurso
lang: Turkish
word: mecra
lang: Afrikaans
word: kursus
lang: Arabic
word: دَوْرَة
roman: dawra
lang: Arabic
word: دَوْرَات
roman: dawrāt
lang: Arabic
word: حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة
roman: ḥalaqa dirāsiyya
lang: Armenian
word: կուրս
roman: kurs
lang: Armenian
word: դասընթաց
roman: dasəntʻacʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kurs
lang: Belarusian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Bulgarian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Catalan
word: curs
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 課程 /课程
roman: fo³ cing⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 課程 /课程
roman: kèchéng
lang: Czech
word: kurz
lang: Danish
word: kursus
lang: Dutch
word: cursus
lang: Dutch
word: opleiding
lang: Esperanto
word: kurso
lang: Finnish
word: kurssi
lang: Finnish
word: kulkusuunta
lang: French
word: cours
lang: German
word: Kurs
lang: German
word: Lehrgang
lang: Hebrew
word: קוּרְס
roman: qurs
lang: Hungarian
word: kurzus
lang: Hungarian
word: tanfolyam
lang: Icelandic
word: námskeið
lang: Icelandic
word: námsbraut
lang: Indonesian
word: kursus
lang: Indonesian
word: program studi
lang: Irish
word: cúrsa
lang: Italian
word: corso
lang: Japanese
word: コース
roman: kōsu
lang: Japanese
word: 課程
roman: katei
lang: Korean
word: 코스
roman: koseu
lang: Korean
word: 과정
roman: gwajeong
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Cours
lang: Macedonian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Malay
word: kursus
lang: Māori
word: akoranga
lang: Māori
word: akomanga
lang: Māori
word: kōhi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kurs
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kurs
lang: Polish
word: kurs
lang: Portuguese
word: curso
lang: Portuguese
word: disciplina
lang: Portuguese
word: matéria
lang: Romanian
word: curs
lang: Romanian
word: oră
lang: Russian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Russian
word: ку́рсы
roman: kúrsy
lang: Scots
word: coorse
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: течај
roman: tečaj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kolegij
lang: Slovene
word: tečaj
lang: Spanish
word: curso
lang: Spanish
word: materia
lang: Swahili
word: kozi
lang: Swedish
word: kurs
lang: Tongan
word: koosi
lang: Ukrainian
word: курс
roman: kurs
lang: Vietnamese
word: khoá học
lang: Walloon
word: cours
lang: Walloon
word: luçon
lang: Welsh
word: cwrs
lang: Yiddish
word: קורס
roman: kurs
lang: Yoruba
word: ìdánilẹ́kọ̀ọ́
lang: Yoruba
word: ìdálẹ́kọ̀ọ́
lang: Dutch
word: weg
lang: Finnish
word: polku
lang: Finnish
word: rata
lang: Finnish
word: reitti
lang: Ingrian
word: rata
lang: Irish
word: réim
lang: Irish
word: slí
lang: Italian
word: percorso
lang: Māori
word: kokenga
lang: Māori
word: raranga
lang: Middle English
word: cours
lang: Portuguese
word: percurso
lang: Sanskrit
word: पथ
roman: patha
lang: Bulgarian
word: редица
roman: redica
lang: Finnish
word: rivi
lang: Portuguese
word: fileira
lang: Russian
word: ряд
roman: rjad
lang: Bulgarian
word: гоня
roman: gonja
lang: Bulgarian
word: преследвам
roman: presledvam
lang: Czech
word: sledovat
lang: Czech
word: stíhat
lang: Czech
word: pronásledovat
lang: Danish
word: jage
lang: Dutch
word: achtervolgen
lang: Dutch
word: achternazitten
lang: Galician
word: perseguir
lang: German
word: verfolgen
lang: Italian
word: braccare
lang: Russian
word: пресле́довать
roman: preslédovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: perseguir