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Course vs Project - What's the difference?

course | project |

As verbs the difference between course and project

is that course is while project is to extend beyond a surface.

As a noun project is

a planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages or project can be (usually|plural|us) an urban low-income housing building.

course

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sequence of events.
  • # A normal or customary sequence.
  • #* Shakespeare
  • The course of true love never did run smooth.
  • #* Milton
  • Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course .
  • # A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
  • # Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
  • # A learning program, as in a school.
  • #* 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses , the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
  • # A treatment plan.
  • # A stage of a meal.
  • # The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
  • #* Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14
  • He appointed the courses of the priests.
  • 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.
  • .
  • 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.
  • 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 course

    Verb

  • To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
  • The oil coursed through the engine.
    Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
  • * 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]
  • He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
  • To run through or over.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
  • To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We coursed him at the heels.
  • To cause to chase after or pursue game.
  • to course greyhounds after deer

    Adverb

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  • (colloquial)
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    project

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Rogers)
  • projects of happiness devised by human reason
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Prescott)
  • He entered into the project with his customary ardour.
  • (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
  • a man given to projects
  • (obsolete) A projectile.
  • (obsolete) A projection.
  • (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
  • (Holland)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To extend beyond a surface.
  • To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  • * Spenser
  • Before his feet herself she did project .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
  • To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
  • To make plans for; to forecast.
  • The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
  • * Milton
  • projecting peace and war
  • (reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
  • * 1946 , Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukeee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure :
  • It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.
  • (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume wrongly qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
  • (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
  • Synonyms
    * (extend beyond a surface) jut, jut out, protrude, stick out * cast, throw * (extend outward) extend, jut, jut out * forecast, foresee, foretell,

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    Etymology 2

    Shortening of (housing project)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
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