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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coarse
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coarse/vulgar expression (=one that is rude)
▪ He came out with some vulgar expressions that I couldn’t possibly repeat.
coarse fishing
coarse (=consisting of thick and large pieces)
▪ The only vegetation was a few bushes and patches of coarse grass.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ On the 36in. and 32in. screens the zoomed format made the pictures look very coarse.
▪ Since they have very coarse fur and stout claws, badger hygiene tends to be an extremely noisy affair.
■ NOUN
fish
▪ The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters.
▪ It was caught in the coarse fish closed season and did not qualify for record status.
grain
▪ By convention the geologist plots coarse grains to the left of the abscissa and fine to the right.
▪ The texture is mainly determined by the proportion of coarse grains-the clastics-as well as their size and shape.
▪ Blend a little cooking juice with two tablespoons each black treacle and tomato purée and one tablespoon of coarse grain mustard.
grass
▪ Conversion to grassland also explains much of the loss of healthy shrubs, coarse grasses, cotton grass and rushes.
▪ There was no food but coarse grass and even the grass was mixed with bitter rushes and docks.
▪ He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass.
▪ They came out of the wood into a bare field where coarse grass lapped limply around their ankles.
▪ It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass.
▪ The only vegetation was scrubby trees and patches of coarse grass.
hair
▪ I felt its coarse hairs prickle my neck ... Smell of wet earth ... My belly writhed.
sand
▪ It will grow well in plain aquarium coarse sand or fine gravel.
▪ In Breckland there is coarse sand which is very porous and poor for crops.
▪ Some clay with coarse sand or gravel can be provided in the tank.
▪ Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium.
▪ However, if cracks do appear, you should try brushing a mixture of peat or compost and coarse sand into them.
▪ Likewise, further groupings such as percentage of coarse sand or of very fine sand may also be calculated.
▪ Cultivation: A medium of coarse sand or fine gravel on its own, or with some loam is sufficient.
▪ Nevertheless a mixture containing coarse sand and bulb fibre or peat moss should be quite satisfactory.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
smooth-textured/coarse-textured/fine-textured etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ coarse sand
▪ A coarse cloth was made from the local wool.
▪ All the hospital beds were covered with coarse cotton sheets.
▪ Her straight hair, once dark brown, was becoming grey and coarse.
▪ Several comedians have been criticized for their coarse humor.
▪ She tried to ignore his coarse jokes and crude innuendoes -- he was obviously drunk.
▪ The fisherman's skin was dark and coarse, his hands big and strong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But such coarse mutilation would not have fitted in with the polite way in which Perrault wished to retell his story.
▪ Conversion to grassland also explains much of the loss of healthy shrubs, coarse grasses, cotton grass and rushes.
▪ One grade coarser is twice the size of its predecessor and one grade finer is half the size.
▪ She touched it; it was dry and coarse to her touch.
▪ She was emptying the contents of a stone mortar, a tobacco-colored crush of leaves, on to a scrap of coarse paper.
▪ Slice off the coarse top and the bottom tip of the carrot with a paring knife and discard.
▪ The former are usually coarse grained; the latter, fine grained or glassy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coarse

Coarse \Coarse\ (k[=o]rs), a. [Compar. Coarser (k[=o]rs"[~e]r); superl. Coarsest.] [As this word was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. g., ``Though the threads be course.'' --Gascoigne. See Course.]

  1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

  2. Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

    I feel Of what coarse metal ye are molded.
    --Shak.

    To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: Large; thick; rough; gross; blunt; uncouth; unpolished; inelegant; indelicate; vulgar.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coarse

early 15c., cors "ordinary" (modern spelling is from late 16c.), probably adjectival use of noun cours (see course (n.)), originally referring to rough cloth for ordinary wear. Developed a sense of "rude" c.1500 and "obscene" by 1711. Perhaps related, via metathesis, to French gros, which had a similar sense development. Related: Coarsely; coarseness.

Wiktionary
coarse

a. 1 Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture. 2 Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy;

WordNet
coarse

  1. adj. of texture; large-grained or rough to the touch; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" [ant: fine]

  2. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]

  3. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: common]

  4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]

Wikipedia
Coarse

Coarse may refer to:

  • Bosnian Coarse-Haired Hound, developed by 19th century Bosnian hunters as a scent hound.
  • Coarse bubble diffusers, produce 1/4 to 1/2 inch bubbles which rise rapidly from the floor of a wastewater treatment plant or sewage treatment plant tank.
  • Coarse fishing, an angling method, mostly popular throughout Europe.
  • Coarse sandpaper, a form of paper where an abrasive material has been fixed to its surface, allowing rapid removal of material by rubbing.
  • Coarse structure, on a set X is a collection of subsets of the cartesian product X × X with certain. properties which allow the large-scale structure of metric spaces and topological spaces to be defined. Used in the mathematical fields of geometry and topology.
  • Coarse woody debris (CWD), a term used for the dead trees left standing or fallen, including branches on the ground.
  • Styrian Coarse Haired Hound, a rough coated, hardy hunting dog used by Austrians and Slovenians to hunt Wild Boar.
  • Granularity
  • Coarse books, a British series of humorous books on sports and pursuits by Michael Green or Spike Hughes, e.g. The Art of Coarse Rugby
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Usage examples of "coarse".

And Buntokapi of the Anasati, an ill-mannered, coarse braggart at the best of times, had been the son of an Acoma enemy before he had become her husband and Ruling Lord.

Field involved two horses belonging to Luke Lambert, a coarse, cocksure man whom Adams did not like.

Meztli, 132, 135 Michabo, supreme Algonkin god, 63, 116, 136, 161-9, 198, 220, 294 Mictlan, god of the dead, 92, 252 Migrations, coarse of, 34 Milky-way, 244 Millennium, 261 Minnetarees, 228, 230, 250 Mixcoatl, or Mixcohuatl, 22, 51, 158 Mixtecas, 90, 196 Monan, 211 Monquis, 93, 106 Montezuma, 187, 190 Moon, worship of, 130 seq.

It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.

The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse, its bear pits and gardens, was the scene of roystering and coarse amusement.

It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery.

Aunt Agnes served a small Irish breakfast that would have felled a field hand: coarse Irish oatmeal and cream, eggs and Irish bacon, battercakes and sausage, and soda bread with butter and jam and quantities of strong hot tea.

Here the goods included the coarse woollen cloth made in most Tibetan households, squares of silk from China, cheap printed material from India, maize and rice from Bhutan, spices, the usual home-grown vegetables, tea-bricks, ritual objects, coral, amber and agate necklaces, talisman boxes and tea-cups of polished birch and maple.

The chemise and outer bliaut were both homespun wool in a drab dun, not overly coarse, but naught that could be considered of a fine quality.

Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper I Lahaina, Maui, 1854 The warm, coarse beach sand was the odd pinkish color of the squirrelfish, the ocean as deep an aqua as the bluefin trevally.

Piazza Maggiore in the form of a cannon that was the butt of coarse jokes from the Bolognese, and would surely be used against Pope Julius if he were rash enough to lead another army northward.

His rougher and coarser companion, Boltrope, is drawn with scarcely less skill, and with a no less vigorous hand.

Picking his trail from several that fanned out from the bottom of the rocky chute, he made his way out of the rocks and aspen groves onto rolling hills covered with thin, coarse, high-altitude bunchgrasses, then into a broad, shallow bowl that looked like the mouth of an ancient volcano.

Most of the bedding used in covering them, if it be as coarse as it ought to be to admit as much air as possible while it should not mat down on the cabbages, will, with care in drying, be again available for covering another season, or remain suitable for bedding purposes.

The women were dressed in coarse wool garments that hung loose from their shoulders and cloaks in two or three colors of checkerwork on top, and the men .