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Course vs. Length — What's the Difference?

Course vs. Length — What's the Difference?

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Course

Development in a particular way; progress
The course of events.

Length

Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance.

Course

Movement in time; duration
In the course of a year.

Length

The measurement or extent of something from end to end; the greater of two or the greatest of three dimensions of an object
The fish reaches a length of 10 inches
The delta is twenty kilometres in length

Course

The direction of continuing movement
The boat took a northern course.
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Length

The amount of time occupied by something
Delivery must be within a reasonable length of time

Course

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

Length

A piece or stretch of something
The surviving length of track
A length of brown satin

Course

A designated route or area on which a race is held
The course of a marathon.

Length

An extreme to which a course of action is taken
They go to great lengths to avoid the press

Course

See golf course.

Length

The distance from the batsman at which a well-bowled ball pitches
Lewis tended to bowl short of a length

Course

A mode of action or behavior
Followed the best course and invested her money.

Length

(in bridge or whist) the number of cards of a suit held in one's hand, especially when five or more
To open one heart with equal length in hearts and spades is in the modern Acol style

Course

A typical, natural, or customary manner of proceeding or developing
A fad that ran its course.

Length

The state, quality, or fact of being long. See Usage Note at strength.

Course

A systematic or orderly succession; a sequence
A course of medical treatments.

Length

The measurement of the extent of something along its greatest dimension
The length of the boat.

Course

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

Length

A piece, often of a standard size, that is normally measured along its greatest dimension
A length of cloth.

Course

A complete body of prescribed studies constituting a curriculum
A four-year course in engineering.

Length

A measure used as a unit to estimate distances
Won the race by a length.

Course

A unit of such a curriculum
Took an introductory course in chemistry.
Passed her calculus course.

Length

Extent or distance from beginning to end
The length of a novel.
The length of a journey.

Course

A part of a meal served as a unit at one time
The first course was a delicious soup.

Length

The amount of time between specified moments; the duration
The length of a meeting.

Course

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

Length

Often lengths Extent or degree to which an action or policy is carried
Went to great lengths to prove his point.

Course

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

Length

The duration of a vowel.

Course

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

Length

The duration of a syllable.

Course

To move swiftly through or over; traverse
Ships coursing the seas.

Length

The vertical extent of a garment. Often used in combination
Knee-length.
Floor-length.

Course

To hunt (game) with hounds.

Length

The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

Course

To set (hounds) to chase game.

Length

Duration.

Course

To proceed or move swiftly in a certain direction or along a course
"Big tears now coursed down her face" (Iris Murdoch).

Length

(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.

Course

To hunt game with hounds.

Length

(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.

Course

A sequence of events.
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.

Length

(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.

Course

A normal or customary sequence.

Length

(figuratively) Total extent.
The length of a book

Course

A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

Length

Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
A length of rope

Course

Any ordered process or sequence of steps.

Length

(theatre) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.

Course

A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
I need to take a French course.

Length

(bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.

Course

A treatment plan.

Length

(obsolete) To lengthen.

Course

A stage of a meal.
We offer seafood as the first course.

Length

The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

Course

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

Length

A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; - often in the plural.
Large lengths of seas and shores.
The future but a length behind the past.

Course

A path that something or someone moves along.
His illness ran its course.

Length

The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.

Course

The itinerary of a race.
The cross-country course passes the canal.

Length

A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

Course

A racecourse.

Length

Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.
May Heaven, great monarch, still augment your blissWith length of days, and every day like this.

Course

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

Length

Distance.
He had marched to the length of Exeter.

Course

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

Length

To lengthen.

Course

(golf) A golf course.

Length

The linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place;
The length of the table was 5 feet

Course

(nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.

Length

Continuance in time;
The ceremony was of short duration
He complained about the length of time required

Course

(navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.

Length

The property of being the extent of something from beginning to end;
The editor limited the length of my article to 500 words

Course

The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.

Length

Size of the gap between two places;
The distance from New York to Chicago
He determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points

Course

(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.

Length

A section of something that is long and narrow;
A length of timber
A length of tubing

Course

Menses.

Course

A row or file of objects.

Course

(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.

Course

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

Course

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

Course

(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.

Course

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.

Course

(transitive) To run through or over.

Course

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

Course

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

Course

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais.

Course

The ground or path traversed; track; way.
The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.

Course

Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
A light by which the Argive squadron steersTheir silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
Westward the course of empire takes its way.

Course

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.

Course

Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
The course of true love never did run smooth.

Course

Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
By course of nature and of law.
Day and night,Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,Shall hold their course.

Course

Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
By perseverance in the course prescribed.
You hold your course without remorse.

Course

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.

Course

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
He appointed . . . the courses of the priests

Course

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties.

Course

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

Course

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

Course

The menses.

Course

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
We coursed him at the heels.

Course

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

Course

To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.

Course

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

Course

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

Course

Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
He took a course in basket weaving
Flirting is not unknown in college classes

Course

A connected series of events or actions or developments;
The government took a firm course
Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available

Course

Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport;
The course had only nine holes
The course was less than a mile

Course

A mode of action;
If you persist in that course you will surely fail
Once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place

Course

A line or route along which something travels or moves;
The hurricane demolished houses in its path
The track of an animal
The course of the river

Course

General line of orientation;
The river takes a southern course
The northeastern trend of the coast

Course

Part of a meal served at one time;
She prepared a three course meal

Course

(construction) a layer of masonry;
A course of bricks

Course

Move swiftly through or over;
Ships coursing the Atlantic

Course

Move along, of liquids;
Water flowed into the cave
The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi

Course

Hunt with hounds;
He often courses hares

Course

As might be expected;
Naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill

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