DICTOMETER

DERROTA (Spanish for "course")

(course, defeat, kurs, nederlag)

1. Synonyms:
   • Course
   • Course of study
   • Course of instruction
   • Class
   Definitions:
   • education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
   Examples:
   • He took a course in basket weaving
   • Flirting is not unknown in college classes
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Course
   • Line
   Definitions:
   • a connected series of events or actions or developments
   Examples:
   • The government took a firm course
   • Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Course
   • Trend
   Definitions:
   • general line of orientation
   Examples:
   • The river takes a southern course
   • The northeastern trend of the coast
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Course
   • Course of action
   Definitions:
   • a mode of action
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Path
   • Track
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • a line or route along which something travels or moves
   Examples:
   • The hurricane demolished houses in its path
   • The track of an animal
   • The course of the river
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Class
   • Form
   • Grade
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • a body of students who are taught together
   Examples:
   • Early morning classes are always sleepy
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • part of a meal served at one time
   Examples:
   • She prepared a three course meal
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Course
   • Row
   Definitions:
   • (construction) a layer of masonry
   Examples:
   • A course of bricks
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
   Examples:
   • The course had only nine holes
   • The course was less than a mile
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • move swiftly through or over
   Examples:
   • Ships coursing the Atlantic
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Run
   • Flow
   • Feed
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • move along, of liquids
   Examples:
   • Water flowed into the cave
   • The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • hunt with hounds
   Examples:
   • He often courses hares
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Naturally
   • Of course
   • Course
   Definitions:
   • as might be expected
   Examples:
   • Naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill