adjective
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covered with an outer layer, film, etc
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(of paper) having a coating of a mineral, esp china clay, to provide a very smooth surface
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(of textiles) having been given a plastic or other surface
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photog optics another word for bloomed
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Shag carpet covered original terra-cotta floors, high-gloss paint coated nearly every wooden surface and overgrown weeds crowded the yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Molten car parts littered our path and out of the window we saw the whole hillside now coated in a dusty black.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Those gases are then analyzed and passed through specially coated capillary tubes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Within days of the pool’s reopening, however, algae blooms coated the floor with a thick layer of algae that was difficult to remove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
It looks like it’s coated in some kind of thin resin.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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