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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
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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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progress
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) +? gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: pr?'gr?s, IPA(key): /?p??????s/, /?p?????s/
- (US) enPR: prä'gr?s, pr?'gr?s, IPA(key): /?p?????s/, /?p?o????s/, /-??s/
- Rhymes: -?????s, -????s
Noun
progress (countable and uncountable, plural progresses)
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 124:
- With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:
- Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]
- The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
Usage notes
- To make progress is often used instead of the verb progress. This allows complex modification of progress in ways that can not be well approximated by adverbs modifying the verb. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
- work-in-progress
Translations
Etymology 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?gr?s', IPA(key): /p??????s/
Verb
progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)
- (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- They progress through the museum.
- (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.
- Societies progress unevenly.
- (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:
- Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:
Antonyms
- regress
- retrogress
Translations
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Further reading
- progress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- progress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latvian
Etymology
Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Pronunciation
Noun
progress m (1st declension)
- progress (development, esp. to a higher, fuller, more advanced state; transition from a lower to a higher level)
- Synonyms: att?st?ba, evol?cija
Declension
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