coarse vs course

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

 The bird's silky down began to coarsen and fray, and its beak began to harden and grow.

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.

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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

Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment.

A few alpha particles were deflected from their straight course.

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

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