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course /körs or kōrs/ noun- The path in which anyone or anything moves
- The ground over which a race is run, golf is played, etc
- A channel for water
- The direction pursued
- A voyage
- A race
- Regular progress from point to point
- A habitual method of procedure
- A prescribed series, sequence, process or treatment, eg of lectures, training, education, pills, etc
- Each of the successive divisions of a meal, ie soup, fish, etc
- A range of bricks or stones on the same level in building
- (in the lute, etc) one of two or more strings tuned in unison or in octaves (music)
- The series of positions of a bell in the changing order in which a set of bells is struck (bellringing)
- One of the sails bent to a ship's lower yards (main course mainsail, fore course foresail, and mizzen course crossjack; nautical)
- (in pl) the menses
transitive verb- To run, chase or hunt after
- To use in coursing
intransitive verb- To run
- To move with speed, as in a race or hunt
ORIGIN: Fr cours, from L cursus, from currere, cursum to run coursˈer noun - A runner
- A swift horse
- A person who courses or hunts
- A swift running bird (genus Cursorius)
coursˈing noun Hunting of esp hares with greyhounds or lurchers, by sight rather than by scent courseˈbook noun A textbook intended for a particular course of study course'ware noun Computing software designed to be used in educational courses courseˈwork noun Work that goes to make up an educational course coursˈing-joint noun A joint between two courses of masonry in course - In regular order
- Of course (archaic)
in due course - Eventually
- At a suitable later time
in the course of - During
- In the process of
- Undergoing (something)
in the course of time - Eventually
- With the passing of time
of course - By natural consequence
- Indisputably
- It must be remembered (often used to introduce a comment on a preceding statement)
off course - Deviating from the correct route
- Astray
on course - Following the correct route
- On schedule
run (or take) its (or their) course To proceed or develop freely and naturally, usu to a point of completion or cessation stay the course see under stay1 the course of nature, or the normal, etc course of events The usual way in which things happen or proceed stay1 /stā/ intransitive verb (pat and pap stayed)- To remain, continue to be, in a place, position or condition
- To reside temporarily, as in stay at a hotel
- To live, dwell (Scot and S Afr)
- To wait in order to participate in or be present at
- To pause, wait, tarry
- To be kept waiting
- To wait, attend as a servant (Shakespeare)
- To stop, cease, desist (archaic)
- To stand firm (archaic)
- To hold out, last, endure
- (in a race, etc) to maintain one's pace over a long distance
- To keep pace or keep up (with with)
- (in poker) to match a bet in order to stay in the game
transitive verb- To reside, remain for a specific period, as in stay for a week
- To hold, restrain, check the action of
- To delay or hinder
- To stop, suspend, discontinue or postpone (judgement, proceedings, etc)
- To hold in abeyance
- To endure or remain to the end
- To satisfy, appease or allay
- To quell, suppress (archaic)
- To stop for, be stopped by (archaic)
- To detain (archaic)
- To await (archaic)
noun- (a period of) staying, temporary residence
- A visit
- A sojourn
- A suspension or postponement of legal proceedings
- A check or restraint
- The act of stopping or being stopped
- Staying power, endurance
- An obstacle (obsolete)
- A permanent state (obsolete)
ORIGIN: From Anglo-Fr estaier to stay, from OFr ester, from L stāre to stand stayˈer noun A person or animal (esp a horse or greyhound) of good lasting or staying qualities for a race stayˈ-at-home adjective - Keeping much at home
- Tending or preferring to stay at home, in one's own area or country
- Untravelled, unadventurous
noun A stay-at-home person stayˈaway noun (S Afr) - A strike
- A person participating in a strike
staying power noun The ability to continue or sustain effort, esp over a long period, without flagging stay-on tab noun A ring pull that does not pull entirely off, but bends into the can stay stitching noun (dressmaking) A line of stitching in the seam allowance to prevent stretching and fraying of the fabric be here (or have come) to stay To have become permanent or established stay in To remain at home stay on To remain, tarry after the normal or expected time for departing stay out - To remain away from home
- To remain throughout or beyond the end of
stay over (informal) To remain overnight, stay the night stay put Not to move from the place or position in which one has been put stay someone's hand (literary) To stop someone on the point of doing something stay the course To endure to the end of the race or other trial of one's stamina and staying power stay up To remain out of bed and awake after the normal time of going to sleep |