coarse vs course
Definitions
adjective
- of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- 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.
Definitions
adverb
- as might be expected
noun
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a mode of action
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
- general line of orientation
- (construction) a layer of masonry
verb
- move along, of liquids
- move swiftly through or over
- 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.
