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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
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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series
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??.?i?z/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
- Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres
Noun
series (plural series)
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
- (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
- Synonyms: show, program
- (Discuss(+) this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums of a given sequence ai.
- (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
- (zoology) An unranked taxon.
- (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.
Synonyms
- serie (obsolete)
Derived terms
- in series
- (media, television) TV series
- (electrical) series-wound
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)
Translations
Adjective
series (not comparable)
- (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.
- Antonym: parallel
Further reading
- series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- series at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- reises, ressie, seiser
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /s???i.?s/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /se??i.es/
Verb
series
- second-person singular conditional form of ser
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
series
- Plural form of serie
Interlingua
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Latin
Etymology
From ser? (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]
Noun
seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension
- a row
- a succession
- a series
- a chain
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
series
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]
Etymology 1
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Etymology 2
Verb
series
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.
Swedish
Noun
series
- indefinite genitive singular of serie
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