course /körs or kōrs/

1. The path in which anyone or anything moves
2. The ground over which a race is run, golf is played, etc
3. A channel for water
4. The direction pursued
5. A voyage
6. A race
7. Regular progress from point to point
8. A habitual method of procedure
9. A prescribed series, sequence, process or treatment, eg of lectures, training, education, pills, etc
10. Each of the successive divisions of a meal, ie soup, fish, etc
11. A range of bricks or stones on the same level in building
12. (in the lute, etc) one of two or more strings tuned in unison or in octaves (music)
13. The series of positions of a bell in the changing order in which a set of bells is struck (bellringing)
14. One of the sails bent to a ship's lower yards (main course mainsail, fore course foresail, and mizzen course crossjack; nautical)
15. (in pl) the menses

1. To run, chase or hunt after
2. To use in coursing

1. To run
2. To move with speed, as in a race or hunt

coursˈer noun

1. A runner
2. A swift horse
3. A person who courses or hunts
4. A swift running bird (genus Cursorius)

coursˈing noun

Hunting of esp hares with greyhounds or lurchers, by sight rather than by scent

courseˈbook noun

A textbook intended for a particular course of study

course'ware noun

Computing software designed to be used in educational courses

courseˈwork noun

Work that goes to make up an educational course

coursˈing-joint noun

A joint between two courses of masonry

in course

1. In regular order
2. Of course (archaic)

in due course

1. Eventually
2. At a suitable later time

in the course of

1. During
2. In the process of
3. Undergoing (something)

in the course of time

1. Eventually
2. With the passing of time

of course

1. By natural consequence
2. Indisputably
3. It must be remembered (often used to introduce a comment on a preceding statement)

off course

1. Deviating from the correct route
2. Astray

on course

1. Following the correct route
2. On schedule

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