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Course

noun

1.

Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings. Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study. "Flirting is not unknown in college classes"

2.

A connected series of events or actions or developments. Synonym: line. "Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"

3.

General line of orientation. Synonym: trend. "The northeastern trend of the coast"

4.

A mode of action. Synonym: course of action. "Once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"

5.

A line or route along which something travels or moves. Synonyms: path, track. "The track of an animal" , "The course of the river"

6.

A body of students who are taught together. Synonyms: class, form, grade.

7.

Part of a meal served at one time.

8.

(construction) a layer of masonry. Synonym: row.

9.

Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport. "The course was less than a mile"

adverb

1.

As might be expected. Synonyms: naturally, of course.

verb

(past & past part. coursed; pres. part. coursing)

1.

Move swiftly through or over.

2.

Move along, of liquids. Synonyms: feed, flow, run. "The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

3.

Hunt with hounds.

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... keep the place tidy, thrown out on to the floor. I went to put them back but discovered the door locked. The key I afterwards found in the grate, where Mr. Leithcourt had evidently thrown it, and on opening the door imagine the shock I had when I found the visitor lying doubled up. I, of course, thought ...

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... independent of their meaning. Rhythm, too, and clearness need attention. An unbalanced sentence goes haltingly and jars; an ambiguous pronoun causes the reader to stumble. An ill-written book, an ill-worded speech fail of their effects; it is not merely by sympathy and character that men persuade. But of course the humanists pushed the matter too far. Pendulums do not reach the repose of the mean without many tos and fros. Elegance is good, but the art of reasoning is not to be neglected. Of the length to which they went Ascham's method of instruction in the Scholemaster ...

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