- present participle of coat.
noun
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a layer or film spread over a surface for protection or decoration
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a heavy fabric suitable for coats
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dialect a severe rebuke; ticking-off
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AkzoNobel’s management and supervisory boards unanimously recommend a proposed merger with U.S. peer Axalta Coating Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Akzo Nobel and Axalta Coating Systems agreed to merge, forming a $17 billion-in-revenue paint company...
From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025
Coating bed nets in the drug cocktail is the long-term aim.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
Coating fossils with varnishes and/or lacquers was the norm in the past and sometimes is still necessary to preserve a fossil specimen in museum cabinets and exhibits.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024
He gives Cash for all kinds of FURS: And has for sale a quantity of Canada Beaver, and Beaver Coating, Racoon Skins, and Racoon Blankets, Muskrat Skins, &c. &c.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
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