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Coating   /kˈoʊtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Coating  n.  
1.
A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
2.
Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.


verb
Coat  v. t.  (past & past part. coated; pres. part. coating)  
1.
To cover with a coat or outer garment.
2.
To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.





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"Coating" Quotes from Famous Books



... little ball. "This ball," he said as he examined it, "is not really of ivory, but of a composition that looks like ivory, coating a hollow, soft-iron ball inside. Soft iron is attracted by an electro-magnet. Whichever set of magnets is energized attracts the ball and by this simple method it is in the power of the operator to let the ball go ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... there is a tendency to sourness, especially on the surface. Free drainage will do something towards preventing this. Another aid in the same direction is to cover the seed with a layer of sand, and the sand with a thin coating of ordinary potting soil. When the surface becomes covered with moss, the coating of soil can be gently removed down to the sand, and be replaced with fresh earth, without ...
— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons
... were out in full feather. Some had their faces covered with a thick coating of soot and oil; the rims of the eyelids, the tip of the nose and the inner portions of the lips showing in striking contrast to the hideous mask, which they are said to wear in order to preserve their complexion. They look for the most ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard
... of the rocky masses are peculiarly remarkable; exhibiting not only the primary colours, but many gradations, such as bluish- green, violet, etc. Many rocks were covered with a red coating resembling cinnabar, in several places we found small veins of pure sulphur, and each moment something new and wonderful met our gaze. The five hours which we occupied in riding from Beyrout to the village of Elhemsin passed like five minutes. The khan of Elhemsin was already occupied by a caravan ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer
... Slippers raised his little head that was a hybrid between a peach and a billiard ball—a peach as to the face, and a billiard ball as to the cranium—and when he saw me sitting with lips tightly set and my desk trembling with my internal laughter, anger put a fresh coating of red upon both peach and ball. But he took no action ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond


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