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/tʃeɪndʒ əv kɔrs/ Listen

Change of course

noun

A change in the direction that you are moving.

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"Change of course" Quotes from Famous Books

... saw that very soon a heavy mass of black cloud would obscure the moon. At once I turned, and made towards the left bank, as if not intending to pass the chain. I could hear the men in the boat speaking rapidly at this, as if commenting on my change of course. Again looking back, I saw that the boat had pushed off, and was making towards that point on the left bank for which I seemed to be aiming. And now I had something else to claim my attention: the sound of voices came from the Tour de Nesle. I cast a ...

— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens

... thus, for two or three hundred yards, when I was brought up short by the violent snort of a rhinoceros just off the starboard bow. He was very close, but I was unable to locate him in the dusk. A cautious retreat and change of course cleared me from him, and I was about to start on again full speed when once more I was halted by another rhinoceros, this time dead ahead. Attempting to back away from him, I aroused another in my rear; ...

— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White

Words linked to "Change of course" : tacking, turning, reorientation, turn, tack, change of direction