What's the difference between course and fairway?

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.

Fairway


Definition:

  • (n.) The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-five American wigeon (Anas americana) died after grazing on one treated fairway on the day of application following irrigation.
  • (2) He hit cleanly and straight down the 14th fairway to restore equilibrium, as news filtered through that back-to-back bogeys by Scott had left Mickelson alone at the front.
  • (3) Nine fairways of a golf course located in Bellingham, Washington were treated with diazinon AG500 at a target application rate of 2.2 kg active ingredient (AI) per ha.
  • (4) The LA Times described it as "Georgian Colonial-style two-storey" property, sitting above the second fairway at the Sherwood Country Club, complete with "a cherry-finished library-office, five bedrooms, six bathrooms and an oversized four-car garage".
  • (5) It described a "Georgian Colonial-style two-storey" property, sitting above the second fairway at the Sherwood Country Club, complete with "a cherry-finished library-office, five bedrooms, six bathrooms and an oversized four-car garage", along with "an infinity pool, spa, lawn and a built-in barbecue".
  • (6) Hours later, Obama walked down the 18th fairway as the sun set behind thick clouds covering the Koolau Mountains.
  • (7) As he hugged and high-fived his caddie, Steve Williams, there would be an inevitable glance towards history; and back to Cabrera's position in the middle of the fairway.
  • (8) Last year's crash over the final four holes at Royal Lytham had cost Scott a first major and earned him widespread sympathy, and though he has since rectified that situation by taking the Masters title at Augusta , that fairway bunker on the 1st set the tone for another tough afternoon.
  • (9) The golf course was battered by an ice storm in February, which prompted the enforced removal of the famous Eisenhower Tree from the 17th fairway.
  • (10) "Golf balls were scarce so we'd nick them off the fairway, run round the clubhouse and sell 'em back to grateful members for a tanner," said Cooper, who later became a chairman of the Variety Club golf section.
  • (11) The world No1 produced some fine golf on the first two days of the 142nd Open and, as he walked up the 18th fairway here to rapturous applause on Sunday, the 37-year-old smiled to the galleries before sliding an attempted birdie putt narrowly past the cup.
  • (12) And when Watson also dropped a shot on the 15th, Lowry was two in front again and maintained that advantage with a superb par save from 20 feet on the 14th after finding a fairway bunker off the tee.
  • (13) It did not inspire confidence and he turned for home one under, sharing the lead with the Australian Adam Scott, a hole ahead of him, and Stenson, a further fairway closer to the clubhouse.
  • (14) The American had been resting his weary feet for maybe half an hour – still smiling about a closing 66 too good for Westwood, Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods and all the rest – when Worksop's finest received a ritual ovation coming up the 18th fairway that smacked as much of sympathy as understanding, never an agreeable mix at the highest level of sport.
  • (15) Once Tiger Woods had made a clean breast of his sexual misdemeanours, he was able to return to the fairway.

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