Course vs Track - What's the Difference?

Course

Track

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
  • a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
  • a groove on a phonograph recording
  • any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
  • an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
  • a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
  • (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
  • evidence pointing to a possible solution
  • a line or route along which something travels or moves
  • a course over which races are run
  • a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
  • the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
Definition as Verb
  • move swiftly through or over
  • hunt with hounds
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Verb
  • carry on the feet and deposit
  • observe or plot the moving path of something
  • make tracks upon
  • go after with the intent to catch
  • travel across or pass over
Definition as Adverb
  • as might be expected
Definition as Adverb

Synonyms

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"
  • "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album"
  • "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
  • "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • "track mud into the house"
  • "track a missile"
  • "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
  • "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

Parts of Speech

Adverb, Noun, Verb
Noun, Verb

Related

See also

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