different between course vs domain

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôs, IPA^(key): /k??s/
• (General American) enPR: kôrs, IPA^(key): /k???s/, /k??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rs, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?s/
• (Tasmania) IPA^(key): /k??s/
• Homophone: coarse; curse (Tasmania)
• Rhymes: -??(?)s, -??(?)s (Tasmania)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from curr? (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus.

Noun

course (plural courses)

1. A sequence of events.
   1. A normal or customary sequence.
   2. A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
   3. Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
   4. A learning programme, whether a single class or (Britain) a major area of study.
      • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

        During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

      • 1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:

        Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
   5. (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
      • 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems

        Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.

   6. A stage of a meal.

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

      • He appointed […] the courses of the priests.

2. A path that something or someone moves along.
   1. The itinerary of a race.

   2. A racecourse.
   3. The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
   4. (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
   5. (golf) A golf course.
   6. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

   7. (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

3. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

4. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
5. A row or file of objects.
   1. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

   2. (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
   3. (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
6. (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.

Hyponyms

• bird course
• crash course
• due course
• massive open online course (MOOC)

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Translations

Verb

course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)

1. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

   The oil coursed through the engine.

   Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.

   • 2013, Martina Hyde, "Is the pope Catholic?", The Guardian, 20 September 2013[1]

     He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?

2. (transitive) To run through or over.
3. (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
4. (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.

   to course greyhounds after deer

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of of course

Adverb

course (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course

Anagrams

• Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, crouse, source

French

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from curr? (“run”), with influence of Italian corsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?s/

Noun

course f (plural courses)

1. run, running
2. race
3. errand

Usage notes

• course is a false friend, it does not mean "course". To translate the English word course to French, use cours.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: curs?

Further reading

• “course” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• coeurs, cœurs
• coures
• écrous
• source

Norman

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from curr? (“run”).

Noun

course f (plural courses)

1. (Jersey) course

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d???me?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do??me?n/, /d??me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

domain (plural domains)

1. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

   The king ruled his domain harshly.
2. A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

   Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.

   His domain is English history.

3. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
4. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
5. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
6. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

   Hyponym: integral domain

7. (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
8. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
   • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium [3]

     Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

9. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
10. (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
11. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
12. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
13. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
14. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

    • A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.

15. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
16. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Usage notes

• (collection of information): Used in a context in which domain name services, or kindred services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information.
• (collection of computers): Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

Synonyms

• (geographic area): demesne
• (where a function is defined): domain of definition
• (collection of DNS names): domain name, hostname

Antonyms

• (domain of definition of a function): range
• (domain of definition of a function): codomain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Domain (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• domain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• domain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domina

Indonesian

Etymology

From English domain, from Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?o?ma?n]
• Hyphenation: do?ma?in

Noun

domain (plural domain-domain, first-person possessive domainku, second-person possessive domainmu, third-person possessive domainnya)

1. domain

   Synonyms: daerah, ranah, wilayah

Further reading

• “domain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

domain m (plural domains)

1. (Internet) domain