coating

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊtɪŋ/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
  • Homophone: coding
• Rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ

Noun

coating (plural coatings)

1. A thin outer layer.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 48:

     You can, if you like, give the completed cork wall a protective coating of sealer, stain, varnish, wax or polish, so you will be able to use liquid cleaners on it.

   They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.

2. (archaic) Cloth for making coats.

Translations

a thin outer layer

• Bulgarian: слой (bg) m (sloj), облицовка (bg) f (oblicovka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塗層 (zh)

• Esperanto: tegaĵo
• Finnish: pinnoite (fi), kuorrute
• French: couche (fr) f, pellicule (fr) f, enrobage (fr) m
• Galician: capa f, baño (gl) m
• German: Beschichtung (de) f
• Hebrew: מַעֲטֶה‎ (he) m (ma'até)
• Hungarian: bevonat (hu), réteg (hu)

• Ido: induto (io), induturo (io)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: پوشش‎ (fa) (pušeš)
• Portuguese: camada (pt) f
• Romanian: strat (ro)
• Russian: слой (ru) m (sloj), облицо́вка (ru) f (oblicóvka), покро́в (ru) m (pokróv)
• Spanish: capa (es) f, recubrimiento (es) m
• Telugu: పూత (te) (pūta)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Verb

coating

1. present participle of coat

   We spent hours coating the truffles with cocoa powder so they wouldn't be sticky.

Anagrams

• cognati, cotinga, tacoing