(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.
Hoop
Definition:
(n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
(n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
(n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(n.) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
(v. t.) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(v. i.) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
(v. t.) To drive or follow with a shout.
(v. t.) To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
(n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
(n.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) It offered maternity coverage without any extra hoops.
(2) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(3) When the acquisition was announced, Google spokespeople were cock-a-hoop, and with good reason: the guys who founded DeepMind are among the best in a very competitive field.
(4) Yes, April Fools' Day is the hoop and stick, the cup-and-ball game, the Michael McIntyre of comedy, if you will.
(5) Their determination to use it as a stick to beat abortion providers with is simply one more reason why this paternalistic and meaningless little bureaucratic hoop needs to be terminated forthwith.
(6) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(7) I asked Kennie how it felt having been through so many hoops only to be told that he still couldn’t vote because of a bureaucratic cock-up that occurred 45 years ago.
(8) On the basis of their isotopic shifts upon deuterium labeling, we have assigned the band at 887 cm-1 to C10H and C14H HOOP modes, and the band at 940 cm-1 to C11H = C12H Au-like HOOP mode.
(9) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(10) Furthermore, perturbations of the unique bathorhodopsin hydrogen out-of-plane (HOOP) vibrations in E113Q and E113A indicate that the strength of the protein perturbation near C12 is weakened compared to that in native bathorhodopsin.
(11) It could be that it is used by people who are renting, or by people who are happy to pay more so they don’t have to jump through the hoops to remortgage – however, you have to be one of their customers to apply, so they will know quite a lot about you,” says Andrew Hagger of Moneycomms.com.
(12) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
(13) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
(14) • The Mighty Hoop-La, Bognor Regis, 26-29 February (three-night tickets from £85), themightyhoopla.com
(15) Retrospective review of 730 consecutive primary uncemented and cemented total hip arthroplasties revealed 19 intra-operative hoop-stress fractures of the femoral neck.
(16) On the basis of a comparison with the vibrational calculations, the low frequency (803 cm-1) and the reduced intensity of the C15 HOOP mode in Pr suggest that the chromophore in Pr adopts the C15-Z,syn conformation.
(17) To determine whether significant regional differences in shortening exist in the canine left ventricle, the shortening characteristics of small segments of the circumferentially oriented hoop axis fibers and the more longitudinally oriented fibers near the epicardium were examined using pairs of ultrasound crystals placed at three levels of the left ventricular free wall in the open-chest dog.
(18) His fourth Jessica Daniel thriller has been sold to Pan Macmillan, who are predictably cock-a-hoop.
(19) 9.15am: Our morning paper view has arrived, with Simon Burnton having thumbed his way through tomorrow's fish and chip wrapping : While Dutch newspapers are predictably cock-a-hoop this morning about developments in South Africa – "FINALE!
(20) Wearing a hooped brown and cream sweater with collar turned up, Mvubu, from KwaThema, stared at the floor with hands behind his back for much of the hearing.