Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - coat

~1 n 1 a piece of clothing that is worn over your clothes to protect them or to keep you warm  (The lab assistants wear long white coats. | put on/take off your coat)  (Billy! Put your coat on, it's cold outside!) 2 BrE old-fashioned or AmE a piece of clothing that covers the top part of your body and is worn as part of a suit; jacket (1)  (A business suit usually consists of matching pants, coat, and vest.) 3 the fur, wool, or hair that covers an animal's body  (a dog with a glossy coat) 4 a thin layer of a liquid or other substance that you spread thinly over a surface + of  (He applied a light coat of varnish.) 5 white-coated/fur-coated/winter-coated etc wearing a white, fur etc coat  (- see also cut your coat according to your cloth cut1 (34), morning-coat) ~2 v 1 to cover something, especially food, with a thin layer of liquid or another substance  (Dust coated the furniture and everything smelled damp. | coat sth with/in)  (Herring is good coated in oatmeal and fried.) 2 metal-coated/plastic-coated etc covered with a thin layer of metal etc 3 sugar-coated a) covered with sugar b) making something seem more attractive, desirable etc than it really is  (The program depicts a sugar-coated version of family life.)