Course vs. Dish — What's the Difference?

Development in a particular way; progress

A shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food

Movement in time; duration

A shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance

The direction of continuing movement

A sexually attractive person

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

Information which is not generally known or available

A designated route or area on which a race is held

Concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub.

See golf course.

Put food on to a plate or plates before a meal

A mode of action or behavior

Utterly destroy or defeat

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

Give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes

A systematic or orderly succession; a sequence

An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.

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

Dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating

A complete body of prescribed studies constituting a curriculum

A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating

A unit of such a curriculum

The amount that a dish can hold.

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

The food served or contained in a dish

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

A particular variety or preparation of food

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

A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.

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

The degree of concavity in such a depression.

To move swiftly through or over; traverse

(Electronics) A dish antenna.

To hunt (game) with hounds.

(Slang) A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.

To set (hounds) to chase game.

(Informal) Idle talk; gossip

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

To serve (food) in or as if in a dish

To hunt game with hounds.

To present

A sequence of events.

To hollow out; make concave.

A normal or customary sequence.

(Informal) To gossip about.

A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.

Any ordered process or sequence of steps.

To talk idly, especially to gossip.

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

A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

A treatment plan.

The contents of such a vessel.

A stage of a meal.

(metonym) A specific type of prepared food.

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

(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

A path that something or someone moves along.

(telecommunication) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

The itinerary of a race.

(slang) A sexually attractive person.

A racecourse.

The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

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

A hollow place, as in a field.

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

The home plate.

(golf) A golf course.

(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.

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

(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

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

Gossip.

The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.

(transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

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

To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

Menses.

(transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

A row or file of objects.

To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

(roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.

The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

(textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.

The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

(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.

A hollow place, as in a field.

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

A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

(transitive) To run through or over.

Anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a dish.

(transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

An electronic device with a concave reflecting surface which focuses reflected radio waves to or from a point, used as a receiving or transmitting antenna; also called dish antenna. The dish is often shaped as a paraboloid so as to achieve a high sensitivity and enable reception of weak signals when used as a receiving antenna, or to focus transmitted signals into a narrow beam when used as a transmitting antenna.

(transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.

A very attractive woman or young lady, especaially one sexually attractive; - sometimes considered offensive and sexist; as, the departmental secretary is quite a dish.

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

A favorite activity, or an activity at which one excels.

The ground or path traversed; track; way.

The quantity that a dish will hold, or a dish filled with some material.

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

To put in a dish, ready for the table.

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.

To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

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

To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

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

To talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee.

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

A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food;

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.

A particular item of prepared food;

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

The quantity that a dish will hold;

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

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

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

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

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

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

The menses.

Provide (usually but not necessarily food);

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

Make concave; shape like a dish

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;