What's the difference between course and luff?

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.

Luff


Definition:

  • (n.) The side of a ship toward the wind.
  • (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
  • (n.) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
  • (n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
  • (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There is a real risk that Google, entirely unintentionally, could limit innovation simply because of its dominance," according to Peter Luff, the Conservative chairman of the Business and Enterprise Committee.
  • (2) Last March Peter Luff , the minister for defence equipment – the position itself is telling – said in a speech in London: "The individual UK armed forces are in themselves a brand … If they are using a particular piece of kit, then that's the kind of endorsement a lot of companies are very keen indeed to have."
  • (3) "We have 25 independent analysts following the company, and if you look at their forecasts for 2015, there isn't a single one who is forecasting that profit margins will double or anything like that," said Centrica's financial director, Nick Luff.
  • (4) Politicians from across the parties are also recognised for long service in Westminster, including Kevin Barron, Labour chairman of the standards committee, Peter Luff, a former Tory defence minister, and Richard Ottaway, Conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee, who are all knighted.
  • (5) In the months before he switched designation of his second home from Worcester to London, Luff paid for more than £5,000 decorating and repairs.
  • (6) Sir Peter Luff, the Tory MP for Mid-Worcestershire who is retiring next year, said the main parties needed to communicate better.
  • (7) Laidlaw wants to bail out as chief executive, and his finance boss, Nick Luff, has already announced his own plans to leave.
  • (8) On the basis of results from their own investigations, the authors compare the values yielded by the enzymatic method with those obtained by means of the Luff-Schoorl procedure.
  • (9) Over the past year the company has lost the finance director Nick Luff, British Gas boss Phil Bentley and chairman Sir Roger Carr.
  • (10) The departure of Chris Weston after just over a year in the job follows the resignation of the finance director, Nick Luff, who is set to be followed by the chief executive, Sam Laidlaw, though his exit has not been confirmed officially.
  • (11) Yesterday Peter Luff, chairman of the cross-party business and enterprise committee of MPs, told the BBC's Today programme that if the deal had gone ahead it would have meant "a huge concentration of electricity generation in the hands of one supplier, over a quarter of the market in one supplier".
  • (12) Peter Luff, the Conservative MP for Worcestershire Mid, has insisted Ipsa's rules forced him to move out of his home and rent.
  • (13) Luff noted that Centrica had put three gas-fired power stations up for sale two months ago and scrapped plans for an offshore windfarm, the Celtic Array off Anglesey.
  • (14) Nick Luff, Centrica's finance director, said the improvement in the bottom line had been driven by demand returning to "normal levels" among the group's 15.8 million British Gas customers.
  • (15) Examination of the register of members' interests shows that those who are renting a London home whilst claiming rental income include Liam Fox, the former defence secretary and the former ministers Peter Luff and Nick Harvey.
  • (16) 1.34pm GMT Peter Luff , the Conservative former defence minister, asks what the purpose of the three new boats will be.
  • (17) Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, David Gauke, a Treasury minister, and Peter Luff, a junior defence minister, have all already visited Scotland this autumn.
  • (18) The source said the headhunters looking for Luff's replacement had been asked to look for a new man for the top job at the same time.
  • (19) Luff and Weston earned £1.2m apiece last year – down from over £3m, which prompted a Financial Times headline warning: "Slimmer pay packets may deter replacements."
  • (20) Luff said while the rebuff for EDF had few short-term implications: "The government does have to get on with creating the climate in which these new nuclear power stations are built."