coated

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊtɪd/, [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɨd]
  • Homophone: coded
• Rhymes: -əʊtɪd

Verb

coated

1. simple past and past participle of coat

Adjective

coated (not comparable)

1. Covered with a thin layer.
2. Wearing a coat.
   • 1849 December, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. […]”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, number IX, Boston, Mass.: […] Coolidge & Wiley, […], page 51:

     I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day.

   • 1908, The Practical Dental Journal, page 2:

     Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.

   • 1963, The Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, page 51, column 1:

     A few seconds after photograph 17 was taken; note that the coated woman has stopped to chat to the group.

Synonyms

• (wearing a coat): becoated

Derived terms

• biocoated
• black-coated
• coated felt sheet
• coated paper
• filmcoated
• Flat-coated Retriever
• frock-coated
• fur-coated
• multicoated
• nanocoated
• noncoated
• pea-coated
• pearl-coated
• powder-coated
• precoated
• Prince Albert-coated
• Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
• sugarcoated
• sugar coated
• sugar-coated
• tricoated

 

Translations

covered with a thin layer

• French: revêtu (fr)
• Hebrew: מְצֻפֶּה (he) m (m'tzuppé)
• Irish: clúmhach
• Spanish: cubierto (es), revestido (es)

Anagrams

• decoat, tacoed