different between drill vs coach

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?l, IPA^(key): /d??l/, [d???]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).

   Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole

2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
   • 1859, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great

     He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.

4. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.

5. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level

6. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
7. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
8. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

   Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2010, MasseMord, Masshealing Masskilling

     Everytime when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.

   • 2012, SwizZz, Flu Shot

     Guess I'll be drilling her butt

Translations

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.

2. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.

3. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.

   • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.

4. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
5. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

Wikispecies

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:drill.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• drill bit
• twist drill
• drill press
• drill down

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

Translations

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.

Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
   • 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books

     Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English drillen, origin unknown.

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.

   Synonyms: entice, lead on, lure
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
   • August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry

     This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

Translations

Etymology 5

Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

1. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

Translations

Further reading

• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 6

From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).

Noun

drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)

1. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

Synonyms

• chino

Derived terms

• khaki drill, KD

Translations

French

Etymology

English drill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?il/

Noun

drill m (plural drills)

1. drill (tool)

Related terms

• driller

Further reading

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

German

Verb

drill

1. singular imperative of drillen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of drillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

drill

1. imperative of drille

Westrobothnian

Verb

drill (preterite drillä)

1. (transitive) twist, turn

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