Course vs Feed - What's the Difference?

Course

Feed

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • part of a meal served at one time
  • facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
  • a body of students who are taught together
  • a mode of action
  • education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
  • a connected series of events or actions or developments
  • a line or route along which something travels or moves
  • (construction) a layer of masonry
  • general line of orientation
Definition as Noun
  • food for domestic livestock
Definition as Verb
  • move swiftly through or over
  • hunt with hounds
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Verb
  • provide as food
  • feed into; supply
  • support or promote
  • serve as food for; be the food for
  • take in food; used of animals only
  • gratify
  • introduce continuously
  • provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
  • give food to
  • profit from in an exploitatory manner
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Adverb
  • as might be expected
Definition as Adverb

Examples

  • "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
  • "she prepared a three course meal"
  • "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"
  • "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • "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"
  • "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
  • "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • "a course of bricks"
  • "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
  • "ships coursing the Atlantic"
  • "He often courses hares"
  • "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • "feed the guests the nuts"
  • "Her success feeds her vanity"
  • "His admiration fed her vanity"
  • "This dish feeds six"
  • "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
  • "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
  • "feed carrots into a food processor"
  • "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
  • "feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
  • "He feeds on her insecurity"
  • "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

Parts of Speech

Adverb, Noun, Verb
Noun, Verb