coat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
nautical
textiles
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.
Latin cotta
Old French cottebor.
Middle English cote
English coat
From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Inflected forms:
form: coats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cote
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: coats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cote
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
gloss: A covering of material, such as paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: fresh coat of paint
Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
gloss: The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Near-synonym: pelt
When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
gloss: Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A petticoat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: a child in coats
gloss: The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
gloss: A coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
gloss: A coat card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
gloss: To cover with a coating of some material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish.
gloss: To cover like a coat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To clothe.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Derived words: animal coat
barn coat
basecoat
base coat
becoated
blackcoat
blanket-coat
bluecoat
body coat
box coat
bridge coat
Browncoat
buff coat
buffy coat
candy-coat
carcoat
car coat
chore coat
choroid coat
claw-hammer coat
clawhammer coat
clearcoat
coat armour
coat check
coat color dilution lethal
coatdress
coatee
coatful
coatgirl
coat hanger
coat-hanger
coathook
coat hook
coatigan
coatless
coatlike
coat link
coat money
coat of arms
coat of mail
coatomer
coat rack
coatrack
coat-rack
coatroom
coat stand
coat-stand
coatstand
coattail
coat-trailing
coat trailing
coat tree
convoy coat
covert-coat
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
decoat
dip coat
dipcoat
dip-coat
Doobon coat
dresscoat
dress coat
ducking coat
duffel coat
duffle coat
dustcoat
electrocoat
feathercoat
fever coat
frock coat
frock-coat
fur coat
gelcoat
glaze coat
greatcoat
green coat
green-coat
haircoat
hardcoat
Holy Coat
house-coat
housecoat
I'll get my coat
Jacob's coat
jellycoat
lab coat
laboratory coat
leather-coat
lipcoat
long-coat
longcoat
mackinaw coat
mast coat
matinee coat
matinée coat
maxicoat
M.B. coat
minicoat
mink coat
mist coat
monocoat
Monty coat
morning coat
multicoat
oilcoat
outercoat
overcoat
parge coat
party coat
patchcoat
pea coat
pick a hole in someone's coat
pilot coat
powder-coat
precoat
Prince Albert coat
puffer coat
rain-coat
raincoat
red coat
redcoat
ridingcoat
riding coat
sail coat
sclerotic coat
seed coat
setting coat
short-coat
skim coat
skim-coat
slipcoat
smallcoat
softcoat
Spanish coat
spincoat
sport coat
sportcoat
sports coat
sportscoat
subcoat
sugar-coat
sugarcoat
sugar coat
suitcoat
swagger coat
tailcoat
teddy bear coat
teddy coat
thincoat
topcoat
top coat
trench coat
turn coat
turn-coat
turncoat
turn one's coat
turnout coat
uncoat
undercoat
waistcoat
watch-coat
whitecoat
white coat
white coat effect
white coat high blood pressure
white coat hypertension
white-coat hypertension
white coat rule
white coat syndrome
winter coat
wolfcoat
wooden coat
wylie-coat
coatable
coater
coat up
recoat
three-quarter coat
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