Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - -coated

1. -coated combines with colour adjectives such as ‘white’ and ‘red’, or words for types of coat like ‘fur’, to form adjectives that describe someone as wearing a certain sort of coat. At the top of the stairs stood the white-coated doctors. COMB in ADJ: ADJ n 2. -coated combines with names of substances such as ‘sugar’ and ‘plastic’ to form adjectives that describe something as being covered with a thin layer of that substance. ...chocolate-coated sweets. ...plastic-coated wire. COMB in ADJ