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dip coat

dip coat is the alternative form of dipcoat.

dip coat is the alternative form of dip-coat.

Meaning of dipcoat

Noun

dipcoat (plural dipcoats)

  1. A coating that is applied by immersing an object in a liquid, often applied to prevent corrosion.
    • The dipcoat is sprayed with a coarse sand while it is still wet.1952, Rawson L. Wood, Investment Castings for Engineers, page 144

Meaning of dip-coat

Verb

dip-coat (third-person singular simple present dip-coats, present participle dip-coating, simple past and past participle dip-coated)

  1. To immerse in liquid in order to apply a dipcoat.
    • For instance, it was described in 1941 how a solution of the enzyme pepsin could be used to remove gelatine from the expensive part of the lacquer record, the even and flat metal blank, and how to cook new gelatine and how to dip-coat the cleaned blank.2012, Dr Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Professor Simon Frith, The Art of Record Production, →ISBN

Forms of dip coat

Noun
pluraldip coats
Verb
third-person singular presentdip coats
present participledip coating
past participledip coated
pastdip coated

Questions about dip coat

What is dip coat the alternative form of?
Dip coat is the alternative form of dipcoat.

Words near dip coat in the dictionary

  1. dip a toe into
  2. dip candle
  3. dip candles
  4. DIP chip
  5. DIP chips
  6. dip coat
  7. dip coated
  8. dip coating
  9. dip coats
  10. dip hop
  11. dip into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dip coat (page history and authors); dipcoat (page history and authors); dip-coat (page history and authors). 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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