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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.
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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.
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.
"A balloon," said Oz, "is made of silk, which is coated with glue to keep the gas in it.
 
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