COACHING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Coaching

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈoʊtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

coaching n. The job of a professional coach.

Synonyms: coaching job.

verb

Coach v. t. (past & past part. coached; pres. part. coaching)

To convey in a coach.

To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. (Colloq.) "I coached him before he got his scholarship."

Coach v. i. To drive or to ride in a coach; sometimes used with it. (Colloq.) "Coaching it to all quarters."

See images of 'Coaching'

Etymology of 'Coaching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Coaching" Quotes from Famous Books

... only just returned from a month's stay in London, made necessary by those new Army examinations which his soul detested. By dint of strenuous coaching he had come off moderately victorious, and had now returned home for a week's extra leave before rejoining his regiment. One of the first questions on his tongue, as his mother instantly noticed, had been a question as to Miss Mallory. Was she still at Beechcote? ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... of singers and dancers worked out, then I pick the people who are capable of playing the parts. Some of them may have had previous experience, but never perhaps professional coaching. Now the reason why these amateur shows are usually so rotten is on account of the incompetent coaches who put them on. It is always the fault of the stager if the show doesn't go over. Some of them are terrible. They don't know anything about the show business. They ...

— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn

... Om-at, the hairy black, also seemed to feel that there rested upon his broad shoulders a portion of the burden of responsibility for Tarzan's education, with the result that either one or the other of them was almost constantly coaching the ape-man during his waking hours. The result was only what might have been expected—a rapid assimilation of the teachings to the end that before any of them realized it, communication by word of ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... a sly grin. "You said something a second ago: Maggie and Larry! They'll make a wonder of a team! I mean that she'll work under him with the rest of us. I've been thinking about it a long while. Mebbe you haven't guessed it, but we've been coaching her for the part, and she's just about ripe. She's got the looks, and we can dress her right for whatever job's on hand. Oh, Larry'll put over some ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... been satisfactorily got through, I was then escorted to the quarters of the naval instructor, who received me most graciously, telling me the hours of study and drill, and coaching me generally in ...

— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

More quotes...