Definition of Course

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Course

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

The ground or path traversed; track; way.

Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

The menses.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

To run through or over.

To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

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Course Quotations

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand

Course Translations

course in Afrikaans is kursus
course in Danish is fad
course in Finnish is kurssi, vati
course in German is Lauf, Lehrgang, Kurs {m}, Bahn {f}
course in Italian is quotazione, decorso, tratto, itinerario
course in Latin is curriculum, tractus
course in Portuguese is curso, prato
course in Spanish is cursillo, transcurso, curso

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