| course | |
| 1. n. A sequence of events. | |
| The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another. | |
| 2. n. A normal or customary sequence. | |
| 3. n. A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding. | |
| 4. n. Any ordered process or sequence or steps. | |
| 5. n. A learning program, as in a school. | |
| I need to take a French course. | |
| 6. n. (especially in medicine) A treatment plan. | |
| 7. n. A stage of a meal. | |
| We offer seafood as the first course. | |
| 8. n. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. | |
| 9. n. A path that something or someone moves along. | |
| His illness ran its course. | |
| 10. n. The itinerary of a race. | |
| The cross-country course passes the canal. | |
| 11. n. A racecourse. | |
| 12. n. The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse. | |
| 13. n. (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc. | |
| 14. n. (golf) A golf course. | |
| 15. n. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment. | |
| The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south. | |
| 16. n. (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc. | |
| A course was plotted to traverse the ocean. | |
| 17. n. (nautical) 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. | |
| 18. n. (in the courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses. | |
| 19. n. A row or file of objects. | |
| 20. n. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks. | |
| On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day. | |
| 21. n. (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system. | |
| 22. n. (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows. | |
| 23. n. (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 played together. | |
| 24. v. 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. | |
| 25. v. To run through or over. | |
| 26. v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after. | |
| 27. v. To cause to chase after or pursue game. | |
| to course greyhounds after deer | |
| 28. adv. (colloquial) alternative form of of course | |
