(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.
Diploma
Definition:
(n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer REGISTERED, SUPPORTS REMAIN Hannah Capstick, 22 Studying for a graduate diploma in law, Leeds Among my friendship group, people didn’t vote in the local elections.
(2) 72.9% of the dentists received their dental diploma within the last 5 years and were predominantly male.
(3) Doctors more likely to report adherence to the recommendations of the Working Party on screening for cervical cancer were: members and associates of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners; doctors with less than 15 years experience; female doctors; doctors with a diploma of obstetrics and doctors in group practices.
(4) Three years later, the proud owner of a PG diploma in housing studies and member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, I was offered the opportunity to complete a further year's study and obtain that elusive degree.
(5) This qualitative study was undertaken to help clarify the meaning and value of caring in nursing practice as perceived by second-year diploma nursing students.
(6) Only 12,000 pupils started the government's new diploma qualification this September, the schools secretary, Ed Balls , confirmed yesterday.
(7) Meanwhile, several members of the IDS Communications team have been encouraged to study for diplomas in marketing.
(8) Subgroups were analyzed in relation to the chosen area of clinical concentration: community health, psychiatric, medical-surgical, and maternal-child nursing; basic nursing education: diploma or generic baccalaureate; and, marital status: single or married.
(9) It was stated that the introduction of the program of advanced training for the diploma of dentist specialized in general stomatology has led to the conceptual and methodological improvement of the educational and training processes.
(10) That diploma is both proof of what he had accomplished and the key to higher learning.
(11) Education Epsom high school, Surrey; North East Surrey College of Technology; Chartered Institute of Bankers (evening classes), certificate in banking; City University, BSc Philosophy & Sociology; City University, postgraduate diploma disability; Management at Work.
(12) Although he completed a teaching diploma - and would have made an inspiring teacher - he joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1968, and after three years as a staff producer in London and Durham returned to work for the newly established BBC Radio Oxford.
(13) A sample of senior associate degree, undergraduate and diploma student nurses in Alabama responded to an 87-item questionnaire which was personally administered by the investigator in a classroom setting.
(14) Balls insisted that his department had received "positive feedback" from teachers and students on diplomas.
(15) He denied playing the game and moving back in with his mother because his business ventures, including a firm selling fake diplomas, had failed.
(16) Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Western Australia has recently restructured electives offered in certificate and diploma courses of Applied Science.
(17) "I went to my diploma exhibition and thought: 'This is nothing like what was going on in my head.'
(18) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(19) Baccalaureate nurses had the most success in documenting components and diploma nurses had the least.
(20) Analysis of questionnaire data collected from a sample of 36 diploma school nursing instructors indicated slight correlations between specific trust and general trust and between general trust and empathy.