Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - coat

(coats, coating, coated) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A coat is a piece of clothing with long sleeves which you wear over your other clothes when you go outside. He turned off the television, put on his coat and walked out. N-COUNT 2. An animal’s coat is the fur or hair on its body. Vitamin B6 is great for improving the condition of dogs’ and horses’ coats. N-COUNT: usu with poss 3. If you coat something with a substance or in a substance, you cover it with a thin layer of the substance. Coat the fish with seasoned flour. VERB: V n with/in n • coated TV pictures showed a dying bird coated with oil... ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ with/in n, adv ADJ 4. A coat of paint or varnish is a thin layer of it on a surface. The front door needs a new coat of paint... N-COUNT: oft N of n