Course

Etymology
From cours:, from  cursus:, from curro:.

Noun

 * 1) A path, sequence, development, or evolution.
 * The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.''
 * His illness ran its course.
 * 1) A normal or customary sequence.
 * 2) A chosen manner of proceeding.
 * 3) Any ordered process or sequence or steps
 * 4) A learning program, as in a school.
 * I need to take a French course to pep up.
 * 1)  A treatment plan
 * 2) The itinerary of a race.
 * The cross-country course passes the canal.
 * 1) A racecourse.
 * 2) A part of a meal.
 * We offer seafood as the first course.
 * 1) The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
 * 2)  The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
 * 3)  The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
 * The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
 * 1)  The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
 * A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
 * 1)  The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
 * Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
 * 1)  A row of bricks or blocks.
 * On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
 * 1)  A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
 * 2)  In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
 * 3)  A string on a lute
 * 4)  A golf course.

Derived terms

 * bird course
 * courseless
 * courselike
 * due course


 * let nature take its course
 * of course
 * off course
 * on course

Verb

 * 1) To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
 * The oil coursed through the engine.
 * Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
 * 1) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey.

(direction)

Adjectives for Course
splendid; admirable; sedate; sagacious; reasonable; sensible; serpentine; winding; sinuous; dizzy; desultory; twisting; circuitous; irregular; roundabout; sanguinary rich; airy; resistless; dangerous; extreme disagreeable; meteoric; advisable; straight secretive; indefensible; devious; speedy politic; heedless; prudent; fixed; middle needful; unexplored; comfortable; unenvi-ous; erratic; alternative; traditional; lenient; stupid; evil; dreary; fatal; mild tortuous; endowed; systematic; peevish indirect; frail; zigzag; feverish; rigorous magnanimous; decisive; stony; immutable desperate; exemplary; circular; natural prescribed; luminous; unsilent; prolonged headlong; initiatory; arduous; hereditary extreme; strange; motley; conquering skyward; unscrupulous; uniform; impetuous;  tangential; precarious; profligate tardy; basalt; tearless; curvilinear; lusty coercive; orderly; ambiguous; long; shady rapid; endless; wheeling; intermitting destined; practical; furious; fair; bloody normal; excellent; spherical; tranquil doubtful; victorious; aimless; uneventful peculiar; respective; contrary; irresistible economical; diurnal; swift; precipitate; majestic; preparatory.

Verbs
advance—; alter—; appoint—; bend—; blow off—; chart—; check— commend—; conceal—; condemn—; continue in—; cut off from—; decide on—; denote—; deter¬mine—; dictate—; direct—; disturb—; drift in—; embark on—; fix—; follow—; hinder—; hold—; illumine—; impede—; interrupt—; lead—; leave to—; map—; mark—; modify—; order—; outrun—; persevere in—; pervert—; plot—; praise—; pursue—; rebuke—; resolve on—; return to—; reverse—; run—; set—; settle on—; shape—; shun—; steer—; stem—; stick to—; subdue—; swerve from—; travel—; tread—; turn—; upbraid—; veer from—; wander off—; wing—; —fluctu¬ates; —runs; —shifts; —winds; —zigzags.

(study)

Adjectives for Course
advanced; logical; pedagogic; technical; rigorous; difficult; condensed.

Verbs
abandon—; change—; choose—; com¬plete—; comprise—; conduct—; cut—; deride—; divide into—s; elect—; emphasize—; establish—; evaluate—; finish—; flunk (colloq.)—; follow—; fulfill—; initiate—; model—upon; pursue—; renew—; revise—; set up—; speed up—; —equips; —intends to; —prepares.

Adverbs for Course
tortuously; swiftly; windingly; circuitously; sinuously; irregularly; deviously; erratically; impetuously; tranquilly; irresistibly; precipitately.

Thesaurus
Brownian movement, Indian file, MO, Zeitgeist, academic specialty, act, adit, advance, advancement, advancing, affluence, afflux, 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, catena, catenation, certainly, chain, chain reaction, chaining, channel, chase, circle, circuit, circus, class, classical education, climbing, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, commutation, commute, compass direction, concatenation, concourse, condensation trail, conduct, conduit, confluence, conflux, connection, consecution, continuum, contrail, core curriculum, couche, course of action, course of study, court, cover, cover ground, creed, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, crosscurrent, crossing, cruise, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, current, curriculum, cycle, dart, dash, deck, 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

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Anagrams

 * cerous
 * source

Etymology
Feminine of cours:.

Noun

 * 1) race
 * 2) errand

Derived terms

 * faire les courses

Anagrams

 * coeurs, cœurs
 * coures
 * écrous
 * source