What's the difference between coach and coact?

Coach


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
  • (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
  • (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
  • (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
  • (v. t.) To convey in a coach.
  • (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
  • (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
  • (2) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (3) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
  • (4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
  • (5) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
  • (6) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
  • (7) Undeterred, the new coach, who also had the expanded recruitment role of general manager, began to exploit Beckham’s strengths, particularly his long passing, while compensating for his increasing loss of mobility by pairing him deep in midfield with the industrious, ball-winning Brazilian Juninho.
  • (8) They arrived on the second coach to carry unaccompanied refugee children from Calais to Britain in two days .
  • (9) Baker was proud of having fired her dramatic coach from the set and needing a maximum of only five takes for the difficult actress.
  • (10) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
  • (11) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
  • (12) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
  • (13) If you go by 2014 alone, most wouldn't think of Johnson, but the little things a coach loves may have led to a biased choice.
  • (14) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
  • (15) Katie has her benefits frozen, leaving her penniless, while Daniel, a man whose doctor says he is too ill to work, has to spend 35 hours a week applying for jobs he can’t take, on the orders of the jobcentre “work coach”.
  • (16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
  • (17) Statistical analyses (p less than .001) indicated that female coaches were (a) more qualified than their male counterparts with respect to coaching experience with female teams, professional training, and professional experience; (b) as qualified as male coaches with regard to intercollegiate playing experience; and (c) less qualified than male coaches with respect to high school playing experience and coaching experience with male teams.
  • (18) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
  • (19) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
  • (20) Beckham has fallen out of favour at Real this season under new coach Fabio Capello, and had previously been linked with a number of major English and European sides, including Bolton, Newcastle, Internazionale and AC Milan, as well as various Major League Soccer sides.

Coact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.
  • (v. i.) To act together; to work in concert; to unite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Experiment 1, subjects performing in groups of four were compared with individual performers both in competing and noncompeting (coacting) conditions.
  • (2) Analysis of variance revealed that, as hypothesized, Ss who coacted in groups of three and who had the responsibility for their behavior removed delivered noxious (but not helpful) stimuli more impulsively than Ss who worked alone and were made to feel responsible (p less than .01).
  • (3) The results indicate a parallel induction of de novo synthesis of reductase and CHS which coact in synthesis of 6'-deoxychalcone.
  • (4) Interaction is viewed as a series of four possible dyadic states: quiescent, infant alone, mother alone, and coacting.
  • (5) The reduction in working capacity was caused by a number of coacting factors, inactivity, reduced lung function and small stroke volume.

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