coach

Coach may refer to:

• Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities
• Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process
  • Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers
• Coach (bus), an automotive vehicle for long-distance travel
• Coach (carriage), a horse-drawn vehicle
• Coach (rail), a type of passenger car
• Coach (scheduled transport), the mode of transport using such vehicles
• Coach Canada, a Canadian bus transport company
• Coach USA, an American bus transport company
• Coach class, a category of transport seating. There is no difference between "economy" and "coach" classes, according to Seatguru.com. The words are interchangeable for describing the main cabin of an airplane, where the majority of passengers sit. Most airplane seats are in economy class, located behind first class. A guru is a person who some people regard as an expert or leader.
• Funeral coach, a vehicle for carrying the deceased

A couch is a long, comfortable seat for two or three people.

A coach is a large closed four-wheeled passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses usually controlled by a coachman occasionally accompanied by a postilion [御者] but always accompanied by footmen ready to handle unruly [不易控制的] horses. A footman is a male servant who typically does jobs such as opening doors or serving food, and who often wears a special uniform. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside. The driver has a seat in front raised up high to give good vision. It is often called a box, box seat or coach box. The word coach came into use in the 15th century and spread across Europe. There are a number of types of coach depending on how the vehicle is to be used. Special breeds of horses, such as the now-extinct Yorkshire Coach Horse, were developed to pull the heavy coaches.

A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses.

Widely used before steam-powered, rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using stage stations or posts where the stagecoach's horses would be replaced by fresh horses. The business of running stagecoaches or the act of journeying in them was known as staging.

Familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike [a spiked barrier fixed in or across a road] gate, a Dickensian [狄更斯笔下的] passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, and a highwayman [sb who stops travellers and robs them] demanding a coach to "stand and deliver".  The yard of ale drinking glass [a drinking game which uses an extraordinarily tall beer glasses] is associated by legend with stagecoach drivers, though it was mainly used for drinking [祝酒] feats and special toasts. If you refer to an action, or the result of an action, as a feat, you admire it because it is an impressive and difficult achievement.

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