(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.
Locomotive
Definition:
(a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
(a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
(n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether), an inflammatory mediator with a wide range of biological activities including neutrophil aggregation and chemotaxis, was studied for its effect on human eosinophil locomotion (chemotaxis and chemokinesis).
(2) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(3) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
(4) In naïve mice, i.e., mice with intact stores of DA, both the selective D1 antagonist SCH23390 and the selective D2 antagonist spiperone blocked the locomoter stimulation produced by (+)-amphetamine.
(5) With respect to the mechanism of the delayed invasion, it was suggested that the IFN-gamma might inhibit the adhesion of the cells to extracellular matrices (ECM) and the subsequent locomotion.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(8) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(9) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
(10) The average speed of the cells, as well as the proportion of neutrophils showing locomotion, is increased.
(11) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(12) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(13) Locomotion and general activities were typically unchanged over days.
(14) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(15) In addition, this drug slightly reduced locomotion and more markedly rearing in a free exploration procedure.
(16) Animals injected with DZP, NPC 12626, CPP or buspirone spent at least 1.4 of the 4 post shock minutes locomoting.
(17) injection of bremazocine, an opiate kappa-receptor agonist, suppressed spontaneous locomotion but not CRF-induced locomotion.
(18) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
(19) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(20) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.