different between dray vs coach

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?, IPA^(key): /d?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræ?e (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *drag?. Cognate with Middle Low German dr?ge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.

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2. A kind of sledge or sled.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• drayage, drayman

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.

References

• dray at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dray in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dyar, Rady, Yard, adry, yard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.

The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??t?/, [k????t?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?t?/, [k?o??t?]
• Rhymes: -??t?

Noun

coach (plural coaches)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   Synonym: carriage

2. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

   Synonym: carriage

4. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
5. (Britain, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
6. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.

   • The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.

7. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

Derived terms

Related terms

• coachee

Descendants

Translations

Verb

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.

3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
   • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men

     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.

   • The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
     Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
     And carried off in some dog's tail at last

Adverb

coach (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

Derived terms

• coachability

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?t?/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [ko?t?]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [ko??t?]
• Hyphenation: coach

Noun

coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)

1. trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
2. counselor

Derived terms

• bondscoach
• coachen

Related terms

• koets

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot?/

Noun

coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

Derived terms

• coacher

Further reading

• “coach” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cocha

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

Polish

Etymology

From English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?wt??/

Noun

coach m pers

1. (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
2. (psychology) coach, instructor

   Synonym: trener

Declension

Noun

coach m inan

1. coachwork

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) coaching
• (adjective) coachingowy

Further reading

• coach in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kot??/, [?kot??]

Noun

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor

Declension