Course vs. Bearing — What's the Difference?

Development in a particular way; progress

The manner in which one carries or conducts oneself

Movement in time; duration

A machine or structural part that supports another part.

The direction of continuing movement

A device that supports, guides, and reduces the friction of motion between fixed and moving machine parts.

The route or path taken by something that moves, such as a stream or vehicle.

Something that supports weight.

A designated route or area on which a race is held

The part of an arch or beam that rests on a support.

See golf course.

The act, power, or period of producing fruit or offspring.

A mode of action or behavior

The quantity produced; yield.

A typical, natural, or customary manner of proceeding or developing

Direction, especially angular direction measured from one position to another using geographical or celestial reference lines.

A systematic or orderly succession; a sequence

Often bearings Awareness of one's position or situation relative to one's surroundings

A continuous layer of building material, such as brick or tile, on a wall or roof of a building.

Relevant relationship or interconnection

A complete body of prescribed studies constituting a curriculum

(Heraldry) A charge or device on a field.

A unit of such a curriculum

(Architecture) Designed to support structural weight

A part of a meal served as a unit at one time

Present participle of bear

(Nautical) The lowest sail on a mast of a square-rigged ship.

(in combination) That bears (some specified thing).

A point on the compass, especially the one toward which a vehicle, such as a ship, is moving.

Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.

(Music) A string or set of two or more closely-spaced and usually identically-tuned strings, as on a lute.

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.

To move swiftly through or over; traverse

The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.

To hunt (game) with hounds.

One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.

To set (hounds) to chase game.

Relevance; a relationship or connection.

To proceed or move swiftly in a certain direction or along a course

One's posture, demeanor, or manner.

To hunt game with hounds.

(architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.

A sequence of events.

(architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.

A normal or customary sequence.

The unsupported span.

A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

(heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.

Any ordered process or sequence of steps.

The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.

A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.

Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

A treatment plan.

The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.

A stage of a meal.

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.

A path that something or someone moves along.

That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

The itinerary of a race.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

A racecourse.

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms - commonly in the pl.

The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.

The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.

(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.

Relevant relation or interconnection;

(golf) A golf course.

The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

(nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

Dignified manner or conduct

(navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;

The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.

Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

A rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily

Menses.

(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

A row or file of objects.

Producing or yielding;

(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.

(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.

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

(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.

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

The ground or path traversed; track; way.

Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

The menses.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

To run through or over.

To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;

A connected series of events or actions or developments;

Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport;

A mode of action;

A line or route along which something travels or moves;

General line of orientation;

Part of a meal served at one time;

(construction) a layer of masonry;

Move swiftly through or over;

Move along, of liquids;

Hunt with hounds;

As might be expected;