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a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place" education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile" (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available" general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares" move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic" a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
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