Coarse and Course

Coarse and Course

The words coarse and course sound identical, but their meanings are very different. The most common query regarding course and coarse relates to meals. Meals are made up of courses not coarses. For example:

• A three-course meal

Coarse

The adjective coarse means rough, crude, of low quality, or not fine in texture. For example: coarse sand coarse manners Perch - a type of coarse fish (not as refined as trout or salmon, which are classified as game fish)

Course

The word course has many meanings. It can be an adjective, a noun, or a verb. Listed below are the meanings of course: Education delivered in a series of lessons

• I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes.

• English course

Also, the students who attend

• You have been an excellent course.

A direction

• A southerly course

• The river changed course.

A series of events

• The government took an unexpected course.

• A course of action

To move (of liquids and ships)

• The German ships coursed the Baltic.

• The stream coursed through the peat bog.

Part of a meal

• We're having a three-course meal. The first course is white bait or mussels.

To hunt with dogs

• To course after hares.

Naturally

• of course

Area of land (or water) for sport

• Golf course

• Skiing course