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