different between course vs period
course
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)
- A sequence of events.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- 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.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- (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.
- 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
- A stage of a meal.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- The itinerary of a race.
- A racecourse.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (golf) A golf course.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- The itinerary of a race.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- (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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)
- 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?
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- (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)
- (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)
- run, running
- race
- 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)
- (Jersey) course
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period
English
Alternative forms
- per. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English periode, from Middle French periode, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (períodos, “circuit, period of time, path around”), from ????- (perí-, “around”) + ???? (hodós, “way”). Displaced native Middle English tide (“interval, period, season”), from Old English t?d (“time, period, season”), Middle English elde (“age, period”), from Old English ieldu (“age, period of time”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.ri.?d/, IPA(key): /?p??.r?.?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?r.i.?d/, IPA(key): /?p?r.?.?d/
Noun
period (plural periods)
- A length of time. [from 17th c.]
- A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. [from 16th c.]
- (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (figuratively) An decisive end to something; a stop.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. [from 17th c.]
- Female menstruation. [from 18th c.]
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc. [from 19th c.]
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity. [from 19th c.]
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided. [from 19th c.]
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course. [15th-19th c.]
- An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc. [from 16th c.]
- (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole. [from 16th c.]
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 118:
- In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […].
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
- A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic!
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage. [17th-19th c.]
- 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125):
- The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
- 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125):
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.
- (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
- (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- (archaic) End point, conclusion.
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,[4]
- As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[5]
- And if my death might make this island happy,
- And prove the period of their tyranny,
- I would expend it with all willingness:
- 1629, John Beaumont, “A Description of Love” in Bosworth-field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, London: Henry Seile, p. 100,[6]
- When Loue thus in his Center ends,
- Desire and Hope, his inward friends
- Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe,
- The weakest giuers of reliefe,
- Stand in his councell as the chiefe:
- And now he to his period brought,
- From Loue becomes some other thought.
- 1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, London: Humphrey Moseley, Act III, Scene 5, p. 51,[7]
- Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill
- The last sand make his Period.
- 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,[4]
Synonyms
- (punctuation mark “.”): point; full stop (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa); dot (computing, abbreviations); full-point, plain point (obsolete)
- (menstrual period): see also Thesaurus:menstruation.
- See also Thesaurus:period
Antonyms
- (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon): frequency
Hyponyms
- pseudoperiod
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
period (not comparable)
- Designating anything from a given historical era. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- a period car
- a period TV commercial
- Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
- 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
- As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
- 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
Interjection
period
- (chiefly Canada, US) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story
- I know you don't want to go to the dentist, but your teeth need to be checked, period!
Synonyms
- (that's final): full stop
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Unsupported titles
Punctuation
Further reading
- Period on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Period in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- period in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- period at OneLook Dictionary Search
Verb
period (third-person singular simple present periods, present participle perioding, simple past and past participle perioded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.
Anagrams
- -poride, dopier, dorpie
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Latin periodus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (períodos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /per?od/
- Hyphenation: pe?ri?od
Noun
perìod m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- period (of time)
Declension
References
- “period” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?r?ju?d/
- Rhymes: -u?d
Noun
period c
- a period, a limited amount of time
- (ice hockey, floorball) period
Declension
Related terms
- brunstperiod
- periodare
- periodicitet
- periodisering
- periodisk
- periodkort
- periodvis
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