College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. |
| 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. |
| 3. | an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. |
| 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. |
| 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. |
| 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. |
| 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. |
| 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. |
| 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. |
| 10. | a company; assemblage. |
| 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. |
| 12. | British Slang. a prison. |
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Online Definition–adjective | 1. | operating under the direct control of, or connected to, a main computer. |
| 2. | connected by computer to one or more other computers or networks, as through a commercial electronic information service or the Internet. |
| 3. | of or denoting a business that transmits electronic information over telecommunications lines: an on-line bookstore. |
| 4. | available or operating on a computer or computer network: an on-line dictionary. |
| 5. | by means of or using a computer: on-line shopping. |
| 6. | Radio. (of a network) supplying affiliated stations with all or a substantial part of their programming. |
| 7. | Television. of or pertaining to the final editing of a videotaped program. |
| 8. | done or accomplished while in operation or active service: on-line maintenance. |
| 9. | located on major routes or rail lines: on-line industries. |
–adverb | 10. | with or through a computer, esp. over a network. |
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Course Definition–noun | 1. | a direction or route taken or to be taken. |
| 2. | the path, route, or channel along which anything moves: the course of a stream. |
| 3. | advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement. |
| 4. | the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages: in the course of a year; in the course of the battle. |
| 5. | the track, ground, water, etc., on which a race is run, sailed, etc.: One runner fell halfway around the course. |
| 6. | a particular manner of proceeding: a course of action. |
| 7. | a customary manner of procedure; regular or natural order of events: as a matter of course; the course of a disease. |
| 8. | a mode of conduct; behavior. |
| 9. | a systematized or prescribed series: a course of lectures; a course of medical treatments. |
| 10. | a program of instruction, as in a college or university: a course in economics. |
| 11. | a prescribed number of instruction periods or classes in a particular field of study. |
| 12. | a part of a meal served at one time: The main course was roast chicken with mashed potatoes and peas. |
| 13. | Navigation. | a. | the line along the earth's surface upon or over which a vessel, an aircraft, etc., proceeds: described by its bearing with relation to true or magnetic north. |
| b. | a point of the compass. |
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| 14. | Nautical. the lowermost sail on a fully square-rigged mast: designated by a special name, as foresail or mainsail, or by the designation of the mast itself, as fore course or main course. |
| 15. | Building Trades. a continuous and usually horizontal range of bricks, shingles, etc., as in a wall or roof. |
| 16. | one of the pairs of strings on an instrument of the lute family, tuned in unison or in octaves to increase the volume. |
| 17. | the row of stitches going across from side to side in knitting and other needlework (opposed to wale). |
| 18. | Often, courses. the menses. |
| 19. | a charge by knights in a tournament. |
| 20. | a pursuit of game with dogs by sight rather than by scent. |
–verb (used with object) | 23. | to run through or over. |
| 25. | to hunt (game) with dogs by sight rather than by scent. |
| 26. | to cause (dogs) to pursue game by sight rather than by scent. |
| 27. | Masonry. to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) in courses. |
–verb (used without object) | 28. | to follow a course; direct one's course. |
| 29. | to run, race, or move swiftly: The blood of ancient emperors courses through his veins. |
| 30. | to take part in a hunt with hounds, a tilting match, etc. |
—Idioms| 31. | in due course, in the proper or natural order of events; eventually: They will get their comeuppance in due course. |
| 32. | of course, | a. | certainly; definitely: Of course I'll come to the party. |
| b. | in the usual or natural order of things: Extra services are charged for, of course. |
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