Course vs Project - What's the difference?
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A sequence of events.
# A normal or customary sequence.
#* Shakespeare
#* Milton
# A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
# Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
# A learning program, as in a school.
#* 1661 , ,
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# A stage of a meal.
# The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
#* Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14
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).
* 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]
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 planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Rogers)
* (and other bibliographic details) (Prescott)
(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
(obsolete) A projectile.
(obsolete) A projection.
(obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
To extend beyond a surface.
To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
To make plans for; to forecast.
* Milton
(reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
* 1946 , Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukeee Journal,
(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.
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
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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 .
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
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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
Adverb
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Etymology 1
Noun from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- projects of happiness devised by human reason
- He entered into the project with his customary ardour.
- a man given to projects
- (Holland)
Verb
(en verb)- Before his feet herself she did project .
- Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
- projecting peace and war
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.