noun
- A line of people or vehicles waiting for something.
- synonyms: waiting line
- Information processing. ( an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)
- A braid of hair at the back of the head.
Queue and Course
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noun
- Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
- usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
- synonyms: course of study, course of instruction, class
- A connected series of events or actions or developments.
- usage: "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
- synonyms: line
- General line of orientation.
- usage: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
- synonyms: trend
- A mode of action.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: course of action
- A line or route along which something travels or moves.
- usage: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
- A body of students who are taught together.
- usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
- Part of a meal served at one time.
- usage: "she prepared a three course meal"
- Construction) a layer of masonry. (
- usage: "a course of bricks"
- synonyms: row
- Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.
- usage: "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"
verb
- Move swiftly through or over.
- usage: "ships coursing the Atlantic"
- Move along, of liquids.
- usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- Hunt with hounds.
- usage: "He often courses hares"
adverb
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- (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
- (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
- (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- (n.) The menses.
- (v.t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
- (v.i.) To run as in a race or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
- (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
- (v.t.) To run, hunt or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
- (v.i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
- (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
- (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
- (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
- (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) To run through or over.
- (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
- (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
- (n.) 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.
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