courses
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Definitions ofcourses
- A sequence of events.
Example: "The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another."
- A path that something or someone moves along.
Example: "His illness ran its course."
- The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Example: "Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship."
- (in the plural, courses) Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- 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.
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
Example: "Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries."
- To run through or over.
- To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- To cause to chase after or pursue game.
Example: "to course greyhounds after deer"
- Menses.
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