different between course vs resort

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)

Derived terms

Related terms

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 1

From Middle English resorten, from Old French resortir (“to fall back, return, resort, have recourse, appeal”), back-formation from sortir (“to go out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?(?)t/

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
2. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

   to have resort to violence
3. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (riz?to)
• ? Portuguese: resort
• ? Spanish: resort

Derived terms

• seaside resort
• Silverado Resort

Translations

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]
2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:

     The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.

Derived terms

• last resort

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? sort

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??s?(?)t/

Verb

resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To repeat a sorting process; sort again.

Alternative forms

• re-sort

Translations

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. An act of sorting again.
   • 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer, Volume 16:

     "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

Etymology 3

From French ressort.

Noun

resort (plural resorts)

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Cunning

     Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

Further reading

• resort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• resort at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, retros, roster, sorter, storer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?z?rt/
• Hyphenation: re?sort
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

resort n (plural resorts)

1. A resort (place with recreational environment for holidays).

Polish

Etymology

From French ressort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.s?rt/

Noun

resort m inan

1. government department

   Synonym: ministerstwo

2. (colloquial) jurisdiction (power or right to exercise authority)

   Synonym: kompetencje

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) resortowy

Further reading

• resort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• resort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English resort.

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (a relaxing environment for people on vacation)

Spanish

Etymology

From English resort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?so?t/, [re?so?t?]

Noun

resort m (plural resorts)

1. resort (place for vacation)