different between course vs trek

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

Alternative forms

• treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trek (plural treks)

1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

4. A long walk.

   Synonym: slog

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

• trigger

Translations

Anagrams

• rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

Descendants

• ? English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

Derived terms

• Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: trek
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) animal migration
4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
5. (countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken
2. imperative of trekken

Anagrams

• rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ek]

Noun

trek

1. truck

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30