course

course
    adv 1: as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a
           huge bill" [syn: {naturally}, {of course}, {course}]
           [ant: {unnaturally}]
    n 1: education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he
         took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown
         in college classes" [syn: {course}, {course of study},
         {course of instruction}, {class}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {course}, {line}]
    3: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern
       course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn:
       {course}, {trend}]
    4: 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" [syn: {course}, {course of action}]
    5: a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the
       hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an
       animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: {path}, {track},
       {course}]
    6: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning
       classes are always sleepy" [syn: {class}, {form}, {grade},
       {course}]
    7: part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three
       course meal"
    8: (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn:
       {course}, {row}]
    9: 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"
    v 1: move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic"
    2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
       Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {run}, {flow},
       {feed}, {course}]
    3: hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"
    

Course \Course\ (k[=o]rs), n. [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr.
   currere to run. See {Current}.]
   1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress;
      passage.
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            And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we
            came to Ptolemais.                    --Acts xxi. 7.
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   2. The ground or path traversed; track; way.
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            The same horse also run the round course at
            Newmarket.                            --Pennant.
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   3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant
      direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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            A light by which the Argive squadron steers
            Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
                                                  --Dennham.
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            Westward the course of empire takes its way.
                                                  --Berkeley.
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   4. 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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   5. 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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            The course of true love never did run smooth.
                                                  --Shak.
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   6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of
      events according to natural laws.
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            By course of nature and of law.       --Davies.
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            Day and night,
            Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
            Shall hold their course.              --Milton.
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   7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct;
      behavior.
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            My lord of York commends the plot and the general
            course of the action.                 --Shak.
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            By perseverance in the course prescribed.
                                                  --Wodsworth.
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            You hold your course without remorse. --Tennyson.
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   8. 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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   9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order;
      turn.
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            He appointed . . . the courses of the priests --2
                                                  Chron. viii.
                                                  14.
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   10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its
       accompaniments.
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             He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of
             several courses, paid court to venal beauties.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of
       the same height throughout the face or faces of a
       building. --Gwilt.
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   12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged
       vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
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   13. pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
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   {In course}, in regular succession.

   {Of course}, by consequence; as a matter of course; in
      regular or natural order.

   {In the course of}, at same time or times during. "In the
      course of human events." --T. Jefferson.

   Syn: Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession;
        manner; method; mode; career; progress.
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Course \Course\, v. i.
   1. 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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   2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through
      the veins. --Shak.
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Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coursed} (k?rst)); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Coursing}.]
   1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to
      pursue.
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            We coursed him at the heels.          --Shak.
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   2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course
      greyhounds after deer.
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   3. To run through or over.
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            The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope.
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COURSE. The direction in which a line runs in surveying. 
     2. When there are no monuments, (q.v.) the land must be bounded by the 
courses and distances mentioned in the patent or deed. 4 Wheat. 444; 3 Pet. 
96; 3 Murph. 82; 2 Har. & John. 267; 5 Har. & John. 254. When the lines are 
actually marked, they must be adhered to, though they vary from the course 
mentioned in the deeds. 2 Overt. 304; 7 Wheat. 7. 1 See 3 Call, 239 7 Mont. 
333. Vide Boundary; Line. 
    

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      affluxion, agora, aim, air lane, algorithm, ambit, amphitheater,
      angular motion, antepast, approach, aqueduct, archery ground, area,
      arena, array, arsis, articulation, ascending, ascent, assuredly,
      athletic field, attack, auditorium, axial motion, azimuth,
      backflowing, background, backing, backward motion, badminton court,
      band, bank, baseball field, basketball court, bear garden, bearing,
      beat, bed, bedding, belt, bent, billiard parlor, boil, bout, bowl,
      bowling alley, bowling green, boxing ring, broil, bull ring, buzz,
      by all means, campaign, campus, canal, canvas, career, casserole,
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      channel, chase, circle, circuit, circus, class,
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      connection, consecution, continuum, contrail, core curriculum,
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      definitely, defluxion, descending, descent, design, dessert,
      diamond, diastole, direction, direction line, discipline, dish,
      dispatch, ditch, do, dog, downbeat, downflow, downpour,
      downward motion, drift, driftage, drive, drone, duct, ebb, ebbing,
      egress, elective, endless belt, endless round, entrance, entree,
      entremets, excursion, execution, exit, expedition, fairway, falcon,
      fare, fare forth, fashion, fetch, field, file, filiation, flight,
      flight path, flit, flood, floor, flow, flow back, flow in,
      flow out, flowing, fluency, flush, flux, follow the hounds,
      football field, form, forum, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding,
      fowl, fry, furtherance, furthering, gallery, gamut, gang,
      general education, general studies, glacial movement, glaciarium,
      globe-trotting, go, go along, go hunting, go over, go-ahead, going,
      golf course, golf links, gradation, grand tour, gridiron, grill,
      ground, guiding principles, guise, gun, gush, gym, gymnasium, hall,
      hasten, hawk, heading, headway, helmsmanship, help, helping, hie,
      hippodrome, hound, hum, humanities, hunt, hunt down, hurry, hustle,
      ice rink, inclination, indubitably, infield, inflow, ingress,
      issue, itinerary, jack, jacklight, jaunt, journey, journeying,
      junket, lay, layer, lecture, ledge, leg, level, liberal arts, lie,
      line, line of action, line of direction, line of march, lineage,
      lines, links, lists, locale, locomotion, main current, main dish,
      mainstream, major, make, manner, manner of working, march,
      marketplace, mat, means, measure, measures, method, methodology,
      milieu, mill run, millrace, minor, mode, mode of operation,
      mode of procedure, modus operandi, monotone, motion, mounting,
      move, move along, move on, movement, moving, naturally, navigation,
      nexus, no doubt, oblique motion, obviously, ocean trip, of course,
      ongoing, onrush, onward course, open forum, orbit, order,
      orientation, outfield, outflow, outing, oval, overlayer, overpass,
      overstory, package tour, palaestra, parade ground, pass, pass over,
      pass through, passage, passageway, path, patrol, pattern, pendulum,
      perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, performance,
      periodicity, pilgrimage, piloting, piste, pit, place, plan,
      plan of action, plate, platform, playground, playing field,
      playroom, pleasure trip, plenum, plunging, ply, point, policy,
      polity, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, portion, position paper,
      positively, pour, powder train, practice, precinct, primrose path,
      principles, prize ring, procedure, proceeding, process, program,
      progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, proseminar,
      prowl after, public square, pulse, purlieu, putting green,
      quadrivium, quarter, queue, race, racecourse, racket court,
      radial motion, random motion, range, range over, rank, reconnoiter,
      recurrence, reflowing, refluence, reflux, refresher course,
      regression, regurgitate, reticulation, retrogression, revolution,
      ride to hounds, ring, rink, rising, road, roast, roll, roll on,
      rolling, rolling on, rotation, round, round trip, route, routine,
      row, rubberneck tour, run, rush, safari, sail, sally, sashay,
      scale, scamper, scene, scene of action, scenery, scent, scheme,
      scientific education, scoot, scope, scour, scour the country,
      scout, scurry, sea lane, sea trip, seam, second helping, seminar,
      sequel, sequence, series, service, serving, set, setting,
      shakedown cruise, shelf, shikar, shoot, shortcut, side dish,
      sideward motion, signs, single file, sinking, site, skating rink,
      soaring, soccer field, spate, specialty, spectrum, speed, spell,
      sphere, spoor, sport, sprint, squared circle, squash court,
      stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stalk, start, steerage,
      steering, step, sternway, still-hunt, story, stratum, stream,
      stretch, string, study, style, subdiscipline, subject, subsiding,
      substratum, succession, superstratum, sure, surely, surge,
      surge back, swath, sweep, swing, system, systole, tack, tear,
      technical education, technique, tendency, tennis court, tenor,
      terrain, the drill, the general tendency, the how, the main course,
      the way of, theater, thesis, thickness, thread, tide, tier,
      tilting ground, tiltyard, time spirit, tone, topsoil, tour,
      tourism, touristry, traces, track, trade route, trail, train,
      traject, trajectory, trajet, transit, travel, travel over,
      travel through, traveling, traverse, trek, trench, trend, trip,
      trivium, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, turf, turn,
      undercurrent, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertow,
      undoubtedly, upbeat, upward motion, vapor trail, vector, voyage,
      wake, walk, water flow, watercourse, way, wayfare, wend, wheel,
      windrow, wise, wrestling ring, zone