Synonyms: course, course of action
Definition: a mode of action
Usage: 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
Similar words: action
Definition: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Usage: there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study, class
Definition: education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
Usage: he took a course in basket weaving; flirting is not unknown in college classes
Similar words: teaching, instruction, pedagogy, didactics, education, educational activity
Definition: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
Usage: he received no formal education; our instruction was carefully programmed; good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded
Synonyms: course
Definition: facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
Usage: the course had only nine holes; the course was less than a mile
Similar words: facility, installation
Definition: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Usage: the assembly plant is an enormous facility
Definition: (construction) a layer of masonry
Usage: a course of bricks
Definition: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
Usage: slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
Synonyms: course
Definition: part of a meal served at one time
Usage: she prepared a three course meal
Similar words: victuals, aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance
Definition: a source of materials to nourish the body
Synonyms: course, class, grade, form
Definition: a body of students who are taught together
Usage: early morning classes are always sleepy
Similar words: gathering, assemblage
Definition: a group of persons together in one place
Definition: a connected series of events or actions or developments
Usage: the government took a firm course; historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
Similar words: series
Definition: similar things placed in order or happening one after another
Usage: they were investigating a series of bank robberies
Definition: general line of orientation
Usage: the river takes a southern course; the northeastern trend of the coast
Definition: a line leading to a place or point
Usage: he looked the other direction; didn't know the way home
Definition: a line or route along which something travels or moves
Usage: the hurricane demolished houses in its path; the track of an animal; the course of the river
Similar words: line
Definition: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
Synonyms: course
Definition: hunt with hounds
Usage: He often courses hares
Similar words: track down, run, hunt, hunt down
Definition: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
Usage: Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland; The dogs are running deer; The Duke hunted in these woods
Synonyms: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right
Synonyms: course
Definition: move swiftly through or over
Usage: ships coursing the Atlantic
Similar words: pass over, track, traverse, cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over
Definition: travel across or pass over
Usage: The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day