Course

/kɔːs/ · noun

Meaning

A sequence of events..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sequence of events.
2. A path that something or someone moves along.
3. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
4. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
5. A row or file of objects.
6. (music) 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.
7. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
8. (transitive) To run through or over.

Example Sentences

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.

His illness ran its course.

Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.

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".

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.

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Word Forms

• courses
• coursing
• coursed
• 'course

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