Course vs Textbook - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between course and textbook

is that course is a sequence of events while textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

As a verb course

is to run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

As an adverb course

is (colloquial).

As an adjective textbook is

of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

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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textbook

English

Noun

(en noun)

A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

* 1917 , George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching?

It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.

* 2000 , Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?

They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.

* 2004 , David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?

...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.

Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.

* 1997 , Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?

It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.

* 2003 , Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?

Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook , its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...

* 2003 , Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?

In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

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