Course vs Flow - What's the Difference?

Course

Flow

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
  • any uninterrupted stream or discharge
  • the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
  • the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
  • the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
  • something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
  • dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Definition as Verb
  • move swiftly through or over
  • hunt with hounds
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Verb
  • cause to flow
  • be abundantly present
  • cover or swamp with water
  • move or progress freely as if in a stream
  • fall or flow in a certain way
  • undergo menstruation
  • 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"
  • "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
  • "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
  • "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
  • "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
  • "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
  • "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
  • "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
  • "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

Parts of Speech

Adverb, Noun, Verb
Noun, Verb