COACH


Meaning of COACH in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a coach/bus/boat trip

They took a boat trip to see the seals.

a flight/train/coach departure

I'm afraid your flight departure has been delayed.

a train/bus/coach ticket

I’ve lost my train ticket.

bus/coach/car etc travel

The price is £98, inclusive of coach travel.

career coach

coach house

coach station

coaching inn

life coach

the team manager/coach

Who do you think will be the next England team manager?

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

assistant

Plucked out of school rugby by the current All Black assistant coach , Ellis has impressed with his ability and polished skills.

I thought maybe I could be hired by a Major League Soccer team or continue on as an assistant coach .

Bill Tobin is a firm believer that the scouting department should have more influence than assistant coaches in running the draft.

Suns assistant coach Donn Nelson has a loaded itinerary.

It came during a trip to visit a former Pierce assistant coach in Northern California.

He was with Baltimore as an assistant coach with Don Shula.

There were no blurry eyes, no one-on-one sessions with the assistant coaches in a remote corner.

national

With the co-operation of the national weightlifting coach , Ziegler persuaded three weightlifters to begin using Dianabol.

The League had decided to keep that Saturday clear to help national coach Andy Roxburgh prepare for the match.

There, Williams wowed national coaches with her array of pitches.

Last Sunday the Leicester City manager agreed to become caretaker national coach for the friendly in Turin.

In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty, the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper.

■ NOUN

basketball

Fast guys tire, a basketball coach once said of his own high-rise team, but big guys don't shrink.

It took those games to cement his decision on a basketball coach .

If he keeps blossoming at this rate, too, basketball coaches soon will be pitching tents in his yard.

She finds her answer on the bulletin board where the job as varsity basketball coach is posted.

The son of a high school basketball coach , Knight has always relished pressure situations.

Now the girls basketball coach has given the school and the town of Bushnell even more reason to be proud.

She was once a girls' high school basketball coach .

football

Mr Baldry, 49, a qualified football coach , was until recently managing director of a travel and sports company.

It turned out about the good-looking fellow from Essex County that he was a football coach who also did some counseling.

Hey, that's a big contract new football coach John Mackovic got!

Mr Yanase is a football coach , a psychologist, and a college president.

He was an assistant football coach at Colorado in the 1980s and had a law practice.

In managing your finances, you should look at your assets the way a football coach looks at his team.

head

The campaign also will feature celebrities such as former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry singing soccer's praises.

Carolina coach Matt Doherty is in just his second year as a head coach, his first with the Heels.

Another possible candidate is MCC's highly successful head coach , Don Wilson.

Bill Russell becomes the first black head coach in the National Basketball Association in 1966.

Lantz resigned effective immediately after nine years as head coach .

Shula became head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals.

party

A series of cancellations by coach parties left their Rosslyn Hotel in Falmouth with no bookings at all.

Notes Large coach parties will be split into smaller groups.

station

Were there two valuations for the coach station in Southampton?

Its city bus station was sold for development and its long-distance coach station was wholly unexpectedly sold for £4 1 million.

A back-up power system at the coach station did operate but only lasted three hours.

Because of Stagecoach's speculation, the ratepayers of Southampton have had to fork out El 38,000 to provide another coach station .

We are close to coach station and walking distance from railway station.

After all, why do they need a coach station ?

trip

It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way.

We also have a two-night coach trip which costs just £149.

She was one of the more cautious volunteers, yet she took the coach trip .

Looe Bindown golf course is 4 miles away, boat and coach trips can be arranged.

■ VERB

drive

Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.

But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?

Those things drive me crazy, coaches worried about how they look, because then their decisions are not team decisions.

He called a coach quickly, laid Oliver on the seat, and drove away.

hire

Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day, 2-night hotel stay.

No university wants to hire a coach with a history of lawsuits, a troublemaker, a rocker of boats.

School officials said they planned to hire a new coach by the end of the week.

For $ 42 million, the Patriot should hire his own quarterback coach .

Garrett noted that date as an important factor in hiring a coach .

The situation was resolved when the school hired its new coach .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

drive a coach and horses through sth

But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?

Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.

express train/coach/bus

And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.

He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.

It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.

It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.

The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.

Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.

Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.

hen house/coach house/storehouse etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a basketball coach

a drama coach

Many businesspeople have begun flying coach to save money.

She's the coach of the volleyball team.

We got a professional football coach to come and help us train the team.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the coach was loaded on Sunday morning, the children looked on sadly.

Chaney is one of the best coaches in the country, but he doesn't score any points for neatness.

If he was careful she might even allow him to travel back with her on the coach .

She knows almost no one in the Bay Area except her teammates and coaches.

The coach makes his decisions and he is the boss.

When the painting is complete it will be married with the Londonderry and Lough Swilly coach body now in store at Pennyburn.

Word comes from Boston that longtime coach and scout John Killilea died.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

basketball

Most basketball coaches would probably be eager to take a shot at slumping Syracuse right about now.

football

He had the idea of offering parents a party formula of football coaching parties.

No one sniggered when football coaches , business executives and politicians became fairer haired.

head

Stability is not firing the head coach every three or four years.

The 37-year-old former Pepperdine player took over as head coach last season.

But then Garrett fired Parker and named Bibby as the interim head coach on Feb. 7.

She was thirty-one at the time, and this was her first head coaching job.

But on the other hand, there are only 29 head coaching jobs out there.

player

Most officials have been as effective again this season as most players , coaches and viewers.

As Tark himself noted, many of the players he coached at San Joaquin Memorial are now civic and business leaders.

team

The team is being coached by Rachel Heyhoe Flint, one of the best female cricket players in the country.

They are out there showing everyone what a team coached by Jody Runge can do.

Both teams will be coached by Ulstermen, and also there will be an Ulster umpire, Tom Morrison.

He took over a team that Bill Walsh coached to only three wins in 1994, and he elicited seven victories.

Nothing wrong with that for a team and coach under such pressure-playing to the conditions and to your strengths.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

express train/coach/bus

And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.

He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.

It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.

It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.

The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.

Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.

Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.

hen house/coach house/storehouse etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As well as teaching French, Martin coached tennis in his spare time.

He seems to enjoy coaching children.

James used to coach high school football.

We need someone to coach the school team.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Drake started coaching lawyers on their opening statements a decade ago.

He once coached Hollander, and he was thrilled to see the young man top Davis and make the world team.

It was raining then, but she was focused on the job, on the opportunity to coach in the Pac-10.

She also sang with Lothian Gaelic Choir and coached disabled horse riders.

When I played pro ball, I'd volunteer and coach in the off-season.

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