Coursenoun
A sequence of events.
‘The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.’;
Sessionnoun
A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
‘a training session’; ‘"Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."’;
Coursenoun
A normal or customary sequence.
Sessionnoun
A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
‘This court is now in session.’;
Coursenoun
A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
Sessionnoun
(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
‘Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.’;
Coursenoun
Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
Sessionnoun
(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
Coursenoun
A learning program, as in a school.
‘I need to take a French course.’;
Sessionnoun
(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
Coursenoun
A treatment plan.
Sessionnoun
(music) lang=en
Coursenoun
A stage of a meal.
‘We offer seafood as the first course.’;
Sessionnoun
(education) An academic term.
Coursenoun
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
‘We offer seafood as the first course.’;
Sessionverb
(music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
Coursenoun
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Sessionnoun
The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
‘So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.’; ‘But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.’;
Coursenoun
A path that something or someone moves along.
‘His illness ran its course.’;
Sessionnoun
The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
‘It's fit this royal session do proceed.’;
Coursenoun
The itinerary of a race.
‘The cross-country course passes the canal.’;
Sessionnoun
Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
‘It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament.’;
Coursenoun
A racecourse.
Sessionnoun
a meeting for execution of a group's functions;
‘it was the opening session of the legislature’;
Coursenoun
The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
Sessionnoun
the time during which a school holds classes;
‘they had to shorten the school term’;
Coursenoun
(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
Sessionnoun
a meeting devoted to a particular activity;
‘a filming session’; ‘a gossip session’;
Coursenoun
(golf) A golf course.
Sessionnoun
a meeting of spiritualists;
‘the seance was held in the medium's parlor’;
Coursenoun
(nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
‘The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.’;
Sessionnoun
a meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business
‘the governor called this week's special session to reconsider the decision’;
Coursenoun
(navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
‘A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.’;
Sessionnoun
a period during which an official body meets regularly to conduct its business
‘legislation to curb wildcat strikes will be introduced during the coming parliamentary session’;
Coursenoun
(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.’;
Sessionnoun
the part of a year or of a day during which teaching takes place in a school or college.
Coursenoun
Menses.
Sessionnoun
a period devoted to a particular activity
‘gym is followed by a training session’;
Coursenoun
A row or file of objects.
Sessionnoun
a period of recording music in a studio, especially by a session musician
‘he did the sessions for a Great Country Hits album’;
Coursenoun
(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
‘On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.’;
Sessionnoun
a period of heavy or sustained drinking
‘it was one hell of a session— we must have drunk about 12 cocktails each’;
Coursenoun
(roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
Sessionnoun
the governing body of a Presbyterian Church.
Coursenoun
(textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
Coursenoun
(music) A string on a lute.
Coursenoun
(music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
Courseverb
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.’;
Courseverb
To run through or over.
Courseverb
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
Courseverb
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
‘to course greyhounds after deer’;
Courseadverb
(colloquial) lang=en
Coursenoun
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
‘And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais.’;
Coursenoun
The ground or path traversed; track; way.
‘The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.’;
Coursenoun
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.’;
Coursenoun
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.
Coursenoun
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.’;
Coursenoun
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.’;
Coursenoun
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.’;
Coursenoun
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.
Coursenoun
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
‘He appointed . . . the courses of the priests’;
Coursenoun
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.’;
Coursenoun
A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
Coursenoun
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
Coursenoun
The menses.
Courseverb
To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
‘We coursed him at the heels.’;
Courseverb
To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
Courseverb
To run through or over.
‘The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.’;
Courseverb
To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
Courseverb
To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Coursenoun
education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
‘he took a course in basket weaving’; ‘flirting is not unknown in college classes’;
Coursenoun
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’;
Coursenoun
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’;
Coursenoun
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’;
Coursenoun
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’;
Coursenoun
general line of orientation;
‘the river takes a southern course’; ‘the northeastern trend of the coast’;
Coursenoun
part of a meal served at one time;
‘she prepared a three course meal’;
Coursenoun
(construction) a layer of masonry;
‘a course of bricks’;
Courseverb
move swiftly through or over;
‘ships coursing the Atlantic’;
Courseverb
move along, of liquids;
‘Water flowed into the cave’; ‘the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi’;
Courseverb
hunt with hounds;
‘He often courses hares’;
Courseadverb
as might be expected;
‘naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill’;
