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n.
organized program of study
1) to conduct, give, offer, teach a course
2) to take a course
3) to audit, sit in on a course
4) to enroll for, register for, sign up for a course
5) to fail; pass a course; to take a course pass-fail (AE)
6) to complete; drop; drop out of; withdraw from a course
7) to introduce; organize, plan a course
8) to cancel a course
9) a demanding, difficult, rigorous; easy, gut (colloq.) course
10) an advanced; beginning, elementary, introductory; intermediate course
11) (at a university) an elective; graduate, postgraduate (esp. BE); intensive; laboratory; lecture; non-credit; required; survey; undergraduate course
12) a correspondence; day-release (BE); extension (AE); makeup; refresher course
13) a course covers, deals with, treats a subject (our history course covered the nineteenth century)
14) a course in, on (she took a course in mathematics; I offered a course on lexicography)
itinerary
path
15) to chart, map out, mark out a course
16) to follow, pursue, take a course (the law must take its course)
17) to set course for (we set course for the nearest port)
18) to change course (it's not good to change course in midstream)
19) to stay the course ('to persist until the end')
20) to run its course (the disease ran its expected course)
21) a collision; middle; natural; zigzag course (events took their natural course)
22) a course of action (to pursue a course of action)
23) off course; on course (our ship was right on course; to be on a collision course; the plane was off course)
playing area
24) a golf course; racecourse (esp. BE)
training area
25) an obstacle course
period
26) in the course of (in the course of an investigation; in the course of time; in due course)
misc.
27) of course ('naturally') (see the Usage Note for track)
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v. (d; intr.) to course through (the blood coursed through her veins)