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Change course   /tʃeɪndʒ kɔrs/   Listen
Change course

verb
1.
Shift from one side of the ship to the other.  Synonyms: gybe, jib, jibe.






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"Change course" Quotes from Famous Books



... to control deck! Alien body bearing zero-one-five, one-point-seven degrees over plane of the ecliptic. On intersecting orbit. Change course two degrees, hold for fifteen seconds, then resume original heading. Will ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell

... of energy! The Abraham Lincoln would change course and race after the animal sighted, only to find an ordinary baleen whale or a common sperm whale that soon disappeared amid ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... not a ship in sight. Of twenty ships and a group of destroyers the night before, not one now. It was his signal-officer who thought it out first. "U-boats thick last night, sir, and the convoy must 'a' got orders to disperse or else change course," he said ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... anti-aircraft guns were at it. Parker began a wide sweep to the left, then turned slowly right, then climbed swiftly. Jimmy raised his machine at the same time, but, thinking to save the left turn and unconsciously slowing in a little on the plane in front, was reminded that he would be wise to change course a bit. The ominous whirr of pieces of projectile told him that the German "Archie" had fired a shot with good direction. He knew that shell might be closely followed by another at a better elevation, so turned right, climbing, until he had regained ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps • James R. Driscoll



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