Coach vs Jig - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between coach and jig

is that coach is a railroad car drawn by a locomotive while jig is a light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

As nouns the difference between coach and jig

is that coach is a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power while jig is a light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

As verbs the difference between coach and jig

is that coach is to train while jig is to move briskly, especially as a dance.

coach

English

Noun

(es)

A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

(rail) A railroad car drawn by a locomotive.

A trainer or instructor.

(British) A single decked long-distance, or privately hired bus.

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

* Samuel Pepys

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

That part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying standard fare.

John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.

Synonyms

* (wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power) carriage * (railroad car drawn by a locomotive) carriage

Derived terms

* coachable * coach and horses * coachbuilder * coach dog * coacher * coach horse * coach lamp * coachman * coachmaster * coach roof * coachwork * head coach * life coach * roach coach * slip coach * stagecoach

Verb

(es)

(sports) To train.

To instruct; to train.

She has coached many opera stars.

To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it ).

* E. Waterhouse

Coaching it to all quarters.

To convey in a coach.

(Alexander Pope)

Derived terms

* coachability

jig

English

Noun

(en noun)

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.

A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

they danced a jig

* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]

Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig , and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.

A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig .

(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.

(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher

A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded.

(obsolete) A trick; a prank.

* (rfdate) Beaumont and Fletcher

Is't not a fine jig , / A precious cunning, in the late Protector?

Derived terms

* the jig is up * dance the hempen jig

Verb

To move briskly, especially as a dance.

The guests were jigging around on the dancefloor

(fishing) To fish with a jig.

To sing to the tune of a jig.

* Shakespeare

Jig off a tune at the tongue's end.

To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

(Ford)

(mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.

To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.