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coat  (kt)
n.
1.
a. A sleeved outer garment extending from the shoulders to the waist or below.
b. A garment extending to just below the waist and usually forming the top part of a suit.
2. A natural outer covering, such as the fur of an animal; an integument.
3. A layer of material covering something else; a coating: a second coat of paint.
tr.v. coat·ed, coat·ing, coats
1. To provide or cover with a coat.
2. To cover with a layer, as of paint.
[Middle English cote, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
coated adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.coated - having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination; "coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing"; "sugar-coated pills"
uncoated - not having a coating; "uncoated paper"
2.coated - having or dressed in a coat
clad, clothed - wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses"


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I know not with what fine and costly material the heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the line of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In the Articulata we can commence a series with an optic nerve merely coated with pigment, and without any other mechanism; and from this low stage, numerous gradations of structure, branching off in two fundamentally different lines, can be shown to exist, until we reach a moderately high stage of perfection.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
"A balloon," said Oz, "is made of silk, which is coated with glue to keep the gas in it.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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