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Of course   /əv kɔrs/   Listen
noun
Course  n.  
1.
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. "And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais."
2.
The ground or path traversed; track; way. "The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket."
3.
Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. "A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore." "Westward the course of empire takes its way."
4.
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.
5.
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."
6.
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."
7.
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."
8.
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.
9.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. "He appointed... the courses of the priests"
10.
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."
11.
(Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
12.
(Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
13.
pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
In course, in regular succession.
Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order.
In the course of, at same time or times during. "In the course of human events."
Synonyms: Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.





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"Of course" Quotes from Famous Books



... partially, the attempt not being made to produce an absolutely balanced valve, on the ground that there should be friction enough to keep the surfaces bright and to prevent leakage. The most perfect valve will, of course, be entirely balanced under all conditions of pressure so as to move with perfect ease. With the riding cut off valve in connection with the plain slide valve, this is not accomplished, and it does not matter whether it is partially unbalanced to prevent leakage or not, the fact that it is not ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various
... and what actual use had been made of them was, of course, lost in the dim and ancient past. But that it was the Aztecs, or some allied race, was the statement of learned men ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker
... there so a person in any room of the building could talk to some one in any other room within the towering walls; to any one outside in the great city, and even to persons far away in Chicago and St. Louis. Then you would have said, "Of course, they are telephone wires." ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford
... when she sat down that something like an attempted clapping of hands or a striking of feet on the floor swept through the church. He was startled by it. As he rose, however, and laid his sermon on the Bible, he said to himself he had been deceived. Of course it could not occur. In a few moments he was absorbed in his sermon and everything else was forgotten in the ...
— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon
... tell me what you consider the shortest and safest route thither, Mr. Bourne? for, of course, a man who drives such an immense trade with all parts of the world will know all that I ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various


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