coarse vs course

coarse

Definitions

adjective

  1. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
  2. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  3. of low or inferior quality or value

Examples

This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.

Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century.

•Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d.

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course

Definitions

adverb

  1. as might be expected

noun

  1. a line or route along which something travels or moves
  2. a mode of action
  3. facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
  4. general line of orientation
  5. (construction) a layer of masonry
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verb

  1. move along, of liquids
  2. move swiftly through or over
  3. hunt with hounds

Examples

A few alpha particles were deflected from their straight course.

I add a little extra for being all spaced-out, of course.

Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit.

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