Course vs Flow - What's the difference?
course | flow | Synonyms |
A sequence of events.
# A normal or customary sequence.
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# A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
# Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
# A learning program, as in a school.
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# A stage of a meal.
# The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
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A path that something or someone moves along.
# The itinerary of a race.
# A racecourse.
# The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
# (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
# (golf) A golf course.
# (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
# (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
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A row or file of objects.
# (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
# (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
# (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
(music) A string on a lute.
(music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
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To run through or over.
* Alexander Pope
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
* Shakespeare
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
(colloquial)
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
Course is a synonym of flow.
As verbs the difference between course and flow
is that course is while flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another.As a noun flow is
a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.course
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Noun
(en noun)- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course .
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- He appointed the courses of the priests.
Derived terms
* bird course * courseless * courselike * crash course * due course * let nature take its course * massive open online course (MOOC) * of course * off course * on courseVerb
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
- The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
- We coursed him at the heels.
- to course greyhounds after deer
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* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
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(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.