What's the difference between bourse and course?

Bourse


Definition:

  • (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is established in new born chickens that the lymphocytes of the bourse of Fabricius are richer in PCG than these of the thymus.
  • (2) The biggest falls on European bourses were in Milan, where the FTSE MIB slid 549 points to 13,114 and in Madrid, where the Ibex shed 252 points to 6624.
  • (3) Bourses across Europe fell, with the FTSE 100 in London finishing down 122.7 at 6271.2.
  • (4) In the 12 months to the end of July, only 10 bourses stayed in positive territory, all of them in emerging markets.
  • (5) There were signs of this yesterday, with a big sell-off in shares on all the European bourses and a fall in the euro against the dollar to its lowest level in more than two years.
  • (6) Islam is for peace, it is kindness, sharing, that is Islam, it is not what happened, it is not what is on the TV.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chalk messages of support at the Place de la Bourse.
  • (7) But with the Milan bourse, hammered by weeks of growing anxiety, dropping another 5%, and the yield on government bonds leaping beyond 7%, panic overspilled from the markets into the streets of Rome's historic centre, where Italy's big political decisions are taken.
  • (8) Eight reasons why China’s currency crisis matters to us all Read more The drops on both sides of the Atlantic mirrored stock markets across Asia-Pacific markets early on Friday after they went into “panic mode” when further signs of a weakening Chinese economy compounded overnight losses on Wall Street and European bourses .
  • (9) Since Juventus and Lazio are quoted companies, yesterday's verdicts were held until after the closure of the Milan bourse.
  • (10) The rally on the Athens market was mirrored at other European bourses, with shares in Germany, France and Spain all up by almost 4%.
  • (11) Other European bourses were affected by the gloomy mood.
  • (12) "He offered stones to one or two of our members," says Harry Levy, vice-president of the London Diamond Bourse, the city's most exclusive commodity exchange.
  • (13) It was only in the last week of July 1914 – once Austria-Hungary had delivered its ultimatum to Serbia – that bourses woke up to the fact that the assassination in Sarajevo had the potential to lead to a war involving all the great European powers.
  • (14) It is the same heart that is hurt, the same sadness.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women stick plastic butterfly decorations near peace messages at the memorial on Place de la Bourse.
  • (15) The Milan bourse opened fractionally higher, consolidating its position as the best-performing leading stock market in Europe so far this year.
  • (16) On top of the regulators' measures failing to achieve their aim of halting the collapse in indices, the embargoes were viewed by experts as actually increasing volatility in the markets – which only intensified the tension and apprehension in global bourses.
  • (17) Since the crash, without anyone in the real world noticing, they have found success in a new role: as the places where the capital’s new class of plutocrats like to do business; the unofficial bourses of London’s transformation into the richest city in the world.
  • (18) Bourses in Frankfurt and Paris had even worse days, both closing down more than 3%.
  • (19) Spain's 10-year bond yield: down 0.321 percentage points at 6.13% Italian 10-year bond yield: down 0.147 percentage points at 5.396% Updated at 3.25pm BST 2.54pm BST Italian stock market gyrates You could have made (or lost) a small fortune on the Milan bourse in the half-hour or so between 2.30 and 3.30 local time.
  • (20) A steady stream of people came to the Bourse, no longer used as a stock exchange, some bearing flowers.

Course


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  • (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
  • (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
  • (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
  • (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
  • (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
  • (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
  • (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
  • (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
  • (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
  • (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
  • (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
  • (n.) The menses.
  • (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
  • (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
  • (v. t.) To run through or over.
  • (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
  • (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (3) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (6) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (7) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (8) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (9) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (12) The time-course and dose-response for this modification of pp60c-src paralleled PDGF-induced increases in phosphorylation of pp36, a major cellular substrate for several tyrosine-specific protein kinases.
  • (13) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (14) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
  • (15) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (16) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (17) The time course of the current potentiation was similar to that seen with beta-adrenergic stimulation.
  • (18) Such complications as intracerebral haematoma or meningeal haemorrhage may occur during the usually benign course of the disease.
  • (19) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (20) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.

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