captain vs coach

captain

verb
  • To act as captain 

  • To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team. 

noun
  • An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel. 

  • The head boy of a school. 

  • A maître d', a headwaiter. 

  • A chief or leader. 

  • An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major. 

  • A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore. 

  • The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel. 

  • One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official. 

  • A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel. 

  • The leader of a group of workers. 

coach

verb
  • To convey in a coach. 

  • To instruct; to train. 

  • To train. 

  • To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it). 

  • To study under a tutor. 

noun
  • A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power. 

  • The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section. 

  • The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class. 

  • The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck. 

  • A trainer or instructor. 

  • A long-distance, or privately hired, bus. 

  • A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit. 

adv
  • Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section. 

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