coach
noun (coach, coaches); verb (coach, coaches, coached, coaching)
Everyday
- A coach is a person who trains a sports team or a player. tree →
- A coach is also a big comfortable bus for long trips (UK). tree →
- A coach is a carriage pulled by horses (old). tree →
- A coach is a carriage of a train. tree →
- To coach is to train or teach someone a skill. tree →
In the lessons
a bus carrying people (seats per coach), or the trainer of a team; in school: the coach takes us on a school trip; in sport: the coach picks the team and plans training; phrases: «football coach», «coach trip», «coach station», «travel by coach»
Examples
- A coach holds 50 people. tree →
- How many coaches for 180 pupils? tree →
- The coach gave each player 2 balls. tree →
- 3 coaches went to the zoo. tree →
- Our coach told us to pass the ball more. tree →
- We went to the seaside on a coach trip. tree →
- Mum coaches the girls' netball team. tree →
- Cinderella rode to the ball in a golden coach. tree →
- Wear your seat belt on the coach. tree →
- The stage coach went rattling past. tree →
Note
Equal groups; trap: with a remainder, one more coach is needed (180 ÷ 50 = 3 remainder 30 → 4 coaches). In the USA a long-distance coach is usually a «bus». Plural: coaches.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «coach» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «coach» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/coach/