In modern colloquial speech, you can often hear the word "coach", "coach", "mentor". Is there a difference in the meanings of these concepts or are they identical synonyms? Where did the word come from and why is it so popular in modern Russian? The coach, whose meaning is most fully revealed when used in a sports and business environment, is becoming a popular profession due to the growth rate of the infobusiness in a variety of niches. What are the features of the use of the word? Let's take a closer look.
Meaning
The word is borrowed from English and has one basic meaning. A trainer is a person who is professionally involved in the education and training of athletes and animals in order to acquire any new given skills.
Examples:
The trainer wrote some examples on the board, and the whole group began to do the task.
The owner completely shifted the responsibility for preparing the horse for the races to the shoulders of the trainer, and he confidently set to work.
Frequent changes of coaches led to the fact that the girl could not fully prepare for sports competitions and decided to refuse to participate.
In different contexts, the word has slightly different connotations, but the ability to teach something professionally remains unchanged. The meaning of the word "coach" in the explanatory dictionary does not reveal the fullness of modern realities and does not reflect the popularity of the concept in connection with the development of the information business and coaching as such.
Morphological and syntactic features
There are two components in the word structure. Root: -tren- and suffix -er. It is easy to trace the analogy with the English language. "Coach" is a masculine noun, animated, 2nd declension. The stress falls on the first syllable. According to the classification of A. A. Zaliznyak, the word belongs to the type of declension 1a.
Singular number:
| Name | coach |
| R. | coach |
| D. | to the coach |
| V. | coach |
| TV. | coach |
| Ex. | coach |
Plural:
| Name | coaches |
| R. | coaches |
| D. | for coaches |
| V. | coaches |
| TV. | coaches |
| Ex. | coaches |
Origin
The word isborrowed from English and comes from trainer - trainer, instructor, trainer, teacher. In French, there is an analogue traîneur, which means the same thing. In the "Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language" A. N. Chudinov edition of 1910, you can find the meaning of "trainer" as "undergoing training." The source is French. In the "Complete Dictionary of Foreign Words Used in the Russian Language" by M. Popov of the 1907 edition, the interpretation is indicated: "the one who prepares and trains the horse for jumps and races." Analyzing the above sources, we can conclude that the word has been used for more than a hundred years. What “coach” means in these publications has been complemented by the realities of the modern world, namely in the field of business and education.
Synonyms
Expanding the boundaries of vocabulary, it is useful to look for hints in dictionaries of synonyms. They will allow you to try on the concept in different contexts and make speech more figurative and expressive. "Teacher" is the main and complete synonym for the word "coach". The meaning of the word also allows the use of the following options: mentor, auto trainer, instructor, animal trainer, rider, methodologist, training device, teaching person, class leader, coach, specialist.
Examples:
The instructor set the time for the task and pressed the "start" button on the stopwatch.
Experience and ability to get results from learners separates good coaches from amateurs.
The trainer went up to the enclosure tomeasure the parameters of the animal, and then began to fill out the table necessary to prepare for the competition.
Antonyms
Depending on the context and understanding that the coach is a teacher, the following variants of opposite words can be considered.
Antonyms: trainee, student, ward.
Examples:
Leading by example is the best way to teach students.
Each student had their own internship program and reporting system.
Students in the early days could not understand what the young coach required of them, and he simply analyzed their behavior in the face of uncertainty.
Phraseological units and set phrases
They allow you to give the concept of imagery and remember it in an interesting context. "Coach" is a borrowed word, and it is difficult to find phraseological units for it, but there are a number of stable phrases that it can be.
- main/senior/new/former/famous/professional/personal;
- football/basketball/chess/sports/school/race/cat;
- children's/women's/army/university/playing.
Examples:
A personal trainer will at least triple your progress towards your goals.
A school coach must adhere to a program that takes into account the peculiarities of the age psychology of students.
Only an army trainer could be so strict about the time frame for a mission.
Most often the word is used in sports and general vocabulary. A trainer is a teacher in a course or training program. In this regard, the word is also common in education and business. Not only active sports, but also checkers, chess, yoga require a coach to organize the learning process. The training of domestic and tamed animals is the same systematized process that involves the preliminary acquisition of knowledge and skills. It is their presence that allows you to assign yourself the qualification of a coach.
