coating
A thin outer layer.
Example
“They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.”
Other meanings
Cloth for making coats.
A telling-off; a reprimand.
Kinds of coating
- coat of paint
- emulsion
- enamel
- facing
- finish coat
- paint
- plating
- rendering
Related words
- biocoating
- electrocoating
- mouthcoating
- multicoating
- nanocoating
- covert-coating
- curtain coating
- sputter coating
- powder coating
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “coating” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.