- 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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Overhead, through the suspended lighting grid, you can see the raw concrete and steel construction, with its thick coating of spray-on fireproofing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"When such charged droplets strike a coating, they discharge locally and can puncture the layer in specific spots like a small flash of lightning -- with consequences for the coating's durability."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
"That's where we then come in, to give them the protective coating to effectively enable these new materials."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Despite those large differences in charge, every experiment involving charged droplets produced detectable changes in the coating.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The planet's famous red color is from iron oxide coating everything.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Individual powder granules are measured in micrometres, the coatings in nanometres - they are applied using a technique known as atomic layer deposition.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The researchers addressed this problem by taking advantage of nanoscale polymer aggregates that had previously been treated as unwanted 'defects' in polymer coatings.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Most indium goes into coatings for flat-panel displays, a mature market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Huge gears lay exposed under the floor, wicked teeth intertwined, gleaming with oily coatings.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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