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“Coarse” or “Corse” or “Course”

coarse / corse / course are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

coarse k·AO·r·s

  • adjectiveof textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles.
  • adjectivelacking refinement or cultivation or taste.
  • adjectiveof low or inferior quality or value; - Shakespeare.

corse k·AO·r·s

  • nounan island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France.
  • nouna region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.

course k·AO·r·s

  • nouneducation imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
  • nouna connected series of events or actions or developments.
  • noungeneral line of orientation.
  • nouna mode of action.
  • nounpart of a meal served at one time.
  • noun(construction) a layer of masonry.
  • nounfacility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.
  • verbmove swiftly through or over.
  • verbhunt with hounds.
Usage

Examples in context

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“coarse”

  • …voice contrasting nicely with Armstrong's coarse rasp."
  • a coarse saw: for cutting fallen or…
  • The wood is coarse, fairly straight grained, dull to…
  • The track surface is coarse stony gravel in this section,…
  • …is primarily treated in the coarse screen building by using 7Nos…
  • …pear-shaped, somewhat flattened and with coarse wrinkles, ranging from 10 to…
  • …inhabit Polyporales bracket fungi or coarse woody debris.
  • …is short, stout, with rather coarse sculpture and very short spire.
  • It calls it the coarse, the medium and the finest
  • …of whitlockite also ranges from coarse granular to earthy.

“corse”

  • Un mariage corse, a vaudeville comedy in one…
  • Unione Corse
  • …include Variations sur une complainte corse for piano in 1938, a…
  • …wines in the Vin de Corse Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and…
  • Corse (disambiguation)
  • …Béarn, Alsace, Flanders, Lorraine, Corsica (Corse), Savoy (Savoie)... (please see individual…
  • …the championship, MV Agusta Reparto Corse rider Jules Cluzel, who won…

“course”

  • …to Schleswig and Holstein (of course that was debatable, as the…
  • …had been built on the course of an old canal with…
  • The Tsada Golf Course – Minthis Hills is a…
  • Ballymena, throughout the course of The Troubles, had a…
  • …failed to agree on which course to take.
  • …18 holes on a golf course.
  • …hands on Terra's technology, of course), but mostly consisted of travelog-like…
  • …on the Daytona Beach Road Course, promoted by local racer Sig
  • Schleswig and Holstein would, of course and inevitably, become the subject…
  • …golf clubs around a golf course.

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