coating

A thin outer layer.

Noun

  1. A thin outer layer.
    • They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
    • "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as...
    • You can, if you like, give the completed cork wall a protective coating of sealer, stain, varnish, wax or polish, so you will be able to use liquid cleaners on it. - 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings,...
  2. Cloth for making coats.
  3. A telling-off; a reprimand.
    • The bogey gave him a right coating. - 1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501:

Forms

coatings

Derived

biocoating covert-coating curtain coating electrocoating mouthcoating multicoating nanocoating powder coating sputter coating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of coat
    • We spent hours coating the truffles with cocoa powder so they wouldn't be sticky.