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
Etymology
Origin of coating
Example Sentences
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I sweep my fingertips over my nightstand, raking the thick coating of dust on the top.
From Literature
The lubricating coating used in the study is based on lipid bilayers, structures commonly found in the membranes of living cells.
From Science Daily
A thick coating of snow lay on the ice, and this we could drink.
From Literature
Light programmable colloidal crystals may eventually enable reconfigurable optical coatings, adaptive sensors, and next generation display and data storage technologies, where patterns and functions are defined dynamically by illumination rather than fixed during manufacturing.
From Science Daily
It’s a Wednesday afternoon in West Hollywood, one day after the city was blanketed in a light coating of rain.
From Los Angeles Times
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