Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Definition: (construction) a layer of masonry
Usage: a course of bricks
Main entry: course
Definition: part of a meal served at one time
Usage: she prepared a three course meal
Main entry: course, class, grade, form
Definition: a body of students who are taught together
Usage: early morning classes are always sleepy
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
Definition: general line of orientation
Usage: the river takes a southern course; the northeastern trend of the coast
Main entry: path, track, course
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
Main entry: course
Definition: hunt with hounds
Usage: He often courses hares
Main entry: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
Main entry: course
Definition: move swiftly through or over
Usage: ships coursing the Atlantic
Main entry: naturally, of course, course
Definition: as might be expected
Usage: naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill