course

/kɔ:s/

Thân thiện

The golfer carefully putts the ball on the final course.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A route or direction followed: A path, track, or way along which something moves or is intended to move.
   • A series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject: A structured program of study.
   • A part of a meal served separately: One of the successive parts of a meal, such as an appetizer, main dish, or dessert.
   • The usual or natural progression or development of something: The way in which something progresses or develops over time.
   • An area of land or water prepared for a sport: A designated area, such as for golf or racing.
   • A continuous horizontal layer of brick, stone, or other material in a building.

2. Verb:

   • To move or flow swiftly, especially of a liquid: To run or flow rapidly.
   • To hunt (an animal, especially a hare) with hounds, typically by sight rather than scent.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The ship changed its course to avoid the storm.
  • She is taking a course in computer programming this semester.
  • The main course was roast chicken with vegetables.
  • In the course of history, many empires have risen and fallen.
  • The golf course is closed due to rain.
  • The bricklayer laid another course of bricks.

• Verb:

  • Tears coursed down her cheeks.
  • The hunters coursed the hare across the open field.

Advanced Usage

• "In due course": At the appropriate or expected time; eventually.
  • Your application will be processed in due course.
• "Of course": Used to introduce an idea or action as being obvious or to be expected; certainly.
  • "May I come in?" – "Of course."
• "Run its course": To develop and finish in the usual or natural way.
  • The doctor said the virus just had to run its course.
• "Stay the course": To continue with a process or effort, despite difficulties.
  • The project is challenging, but we must stay the course.

Variants and Related Words

• Recourse (n): A source of help in a difficult situation.
  • They had no recourse but to sell the property.
• Discourse (n/v): Written or spoken communication or debate; to communicate formally.
  • The lecture was an interesting discourse on ethics.
• Intercourse (n): Communication or dealings between people; (archaic) social interaction.
  • The treaty facilitated commercial intercourse between the nations.

Synonyms

• Path, route, track (for the route/direction meaning).
• Class, program, module (for the series of lessons meaning).
• Dish, serving (for the part of a meal meaning).
• Progression, development, flow (for the progression meaning).

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Course through (v): To flow or move quickly through something.
  • Excitement coursed through the crowd.

Related Idioms

• A matter of course: Something that is done as a regular procedure or by routine.
  • Checking passports at the border is a matter of course.
• Par for the course: What is normal or expected in a given situation (often used for something negative).
  • Delays are par for the course when traveling by train.
• On course for (something): Likely to achieve something.
  • The team is on course for victory.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. as might be expected
   • naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill

Noun

1. facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
   • the course had only nine holes
   • the course was less than a mile
2. (construction) a layer of masonry
   • a course of bricks
3. part of a meal served at one time
   • she prepared a three course meal
4. a body of students who are taught together
   • early morning classes are always sleepy
5. a line or route along which something travels or moves
   • the hurricane demolished houses in its path
   • the track of an animal
   • the course of the river
6. a mode of action
   • 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
7. general line of orientation
   • the river takes a southern course
   • the northeastern trend of the coast
8. a connected series of events or actions or developments
   • the government took a firm course
   • historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
9. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
   • he took a course in basket weaving
   • flirting is not unknown in college classes

Verb

1. hunt with hounds
   • He often courses hares
2. move along, of liquids
   • Water flowed into the cave
   • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
3. move swiftly through or over
   • ships coursing the Atlantic

Từ đồng nghĩa

• naturally
• of course
• row
• class
• form
• grade
• path
• track
• course of action
• trend
• line
• course of study
• course of instruction
• run
• flow
• feed