coat
/ˈkoʊ̯t/ verb C2- To cover with a coating of some material. · The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
- To cover like a coat.
He/she/it coats · Past coated · Past participle coated · -ing form coating
Verb forms
- Base form
- coat
- He/she/it
- coats
- Past
- coated
- Past participle
- coated
- -ing form
- coating
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The sawed gun was not more than two foot long—one could carry it easily under one’s coat.
“And ample for us both,” said Holmes, as he sprang up and hastened to change from his dressing gown to his coat.
He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining.
Then Oz painted it on the inside with a coat of thin glue, to make it airtight, after which he announced that the balloon was ready.
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