coat

coat
1 noun (C)
1 a piece of clothing that is worn over your clothes to protect them or to keep you warm: The lab assistants wear long white coats. | put on/take off your coat: Billy! Put your coat on, it's cold outside!
2 BrE old-fashioned or AmE a piece of clothing that covers the top part of your body and is worn as part of a suit; jacket (1): A business suit usually consists of matching pants, coat, and vest.
3 the fur, wool, or hair that covers an animal's body: a dog with a glossy coat
4 a thin layer of a liquid or other substance that you spread thinly over a surface
(+ of): He applied a light coat of varnish.
5 white-coated/fur-coated/winter-coated etc wearing a white, fur etc coat
-see also: cut your coat according to your cloth cut 1 (34), morning-coat 2 verb (T)
1 to cover something, especially food, with a thin layer of liquid or another substance: Dust coated the furniture and everything smelled damp. | coat sth with/in: Herring is good coated in oatmeal and fried.
2 metal-coated/plastic-coated etc covered with a thin layer of metal etc
3 sugar-coated
a) covered with sugar
b) making something seem more attractive, desirable etc than it really is: The program depicts a sugar-coated version of family life.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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  • Coat — (k[=o]t; 110), n. [OF. cote, F. cotte, petticoat, cotte d armes coat of arms, cotte de mailles coat of mail, LL. cota, cotta, tunic, prob. of German origin; cf. OHG. chozzo coarse mantle, G. klotze, D. kot, hut, E. cot. Cf. {Cot} a hut.] 1. An… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Coat — can refer to any one of the following: Coat, a layer of a certain substance, usually paint. Coat (animal), the natural fur coat of an animal. Coat (clothing), an article of clothing for humans. Coat (dog), the natural fur coat of a dog. Coat of… …   Wikipedia

  • Coat — 〈[ koʊt] m. 6〉 1. (langer) Mantel, Jacke 2. Kittel [engl.] * * * Coat [koʊt ], der; [s], s [engl. coat < afrz. cote, aus dem Germ.]: dreiviertellanger Mantel. * * * Coat   [kəʊt, englisch] der, ( …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Coat — (k[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coating}.] 1. To cover with a coat or outer garment. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • coat — early 14c., outer garment, from O.Fr. cote coat, robe, tunic, overgarment, from a Germanic source, perhaps Frank. *kotta coarse cloth (Cf. O.S. kot woolen mantle, O.H.G. chozza cloak of coarse wool, Ger. Kotze a coarse coat ), of unknown origin.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • coat — [n1] animal hair crust, ectoderm, epidermis, felt, fleece, fur, hide, husk, integument, leather, membrane, pelage, pellicle, pelt, peltry, protective covering, rind, scale, scarfskin, shell, skin, wool; concept 399 coat [n2] covering bark,… …   New thesaurus

  • coat — [kōt] n. [ME cote, a coat < OFr < Frank * kotta, coarse cloth; akin to Ger kotze, shaggy overcoat] 1. a sleeved outer garment opening down the front and varying in length, as a suit jacket or a topcoat or overcoat 2. a natural outer… …   English World dictionary

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  • coat|ed — «KOH tihd», adjective. 1. having or covered with a coat or coating. 2. wearing a coat …   Useful english dictionary

  • Coat — [kout] der; [s], s <aus engl. coat »Mantel«, dies über altfr. cote aus galloroman. *cotta> dreiviertellanger Mantel …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • coat|ee — «koh TEE», noun. a close fitting coat with short tails, chiefly military …   Useful english dictionary

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