coating
/ˈkəʊtɪŋ/US/ˈkoʊtɪŋ/
coating noun: a thin outer layer. Also the present participle and gerund of coat.
Noun
coating (plural coatings)
- A thin outer layer.
- They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
- "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106
- Cloth for making coats.
- A telling-off; a reprimand.
- The bogey gave him a right coating.1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501
Also used as
coating is also the present participle and gerund of coat.
coating meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
coating in Marathi
- कोटिंग
coating in Urdu
- کوٹنگ
coating in Bengali
- প্রলেপ, প্রলেপ দেওয়া
coating in Telugu
- a thin outer layer
- పూత pūta
More languagesFewer languages
- coating in Malayalam
- കോട്ടിംഗ്, പൂശൽ
- coating in Kannada
- ಲೇಪನ, ಕೋಟಿಂಗ್, ಲೇಪನವನ್ನು
- coating in Gujarati
- કોટિંગ
- coating in Odia
- ଲେପନ, ପ୍ରଲେପ, ଲେପନ କରିବା
- coating in Nepali
- कोटिंग, कोटिङ, लेपन
- coating in Persian
- پوشش pušeš
Examples of coating in a sentence
- The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.
- Unpolished grains that retained their outer coating were a major linchpin of his diet of whole foods.
- Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.
Forms of coating
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Words formed from coating
Phrases with coating
Words that rhyme with coating
Questions about coating
- What does coating mean?
- Coating means a thin outer layer.
- What is coating in Marathi?
- Coating in Marathi is कोटिंग. See Coating meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is coating?
- Coating is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coating?
- Coating is pronounced /ˈkəʊtɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of coating?
- The plural of coating is coatings.
Words near coating in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coating (page history and authors); coating (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coating (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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