Crossword clues for coating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coat \Coat\ (k[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coated; p. pr. & vb. n. Coating.]
To cover with a coat or outer garment.
To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.
Coating \Coat"ing\ (k[=o]"[i^]ng), n.
A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"layer over a surface," 1768, verbal noun from coat (v.).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 A thin outer layer. 2 (context archaic English) cloth for making coats. vb. (present participle of coat English)
WordNet
n. a thin layer covering something; "a second coat of paint" [syn: coat]
a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance); "the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly" [syn: finish, finishing]
a heavy fabric suitable for coats
the work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint"; [syn: application, covering]
Wikipedia
A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both. The coating itself may be an all-over coating, completely covering the substrate, or it may only cover parts of the substrate. An example of all of these types of coating is a product label on many drinks bottles- one side has an all-over functional coating (the adhesive) and the other side has one or more decorative coatings in an appropriate pattern (the printing) to form the words and images.
Paints and lacquers are coatings that mostly have dual uses of protecting the substrate and being decorative, although some artists paints are only for decoration, and the paint on large industrial pipes is presumably only for the function of preventing corrosion.
Functional coatings may be applied to change the surface properties of the substrate, such as adhesion, wetability, corrosion resistance, or wear resistance. In other cases, e.g. semiconductor device fabrication (where the substrate is a wafer), the coating adds a completely new property such as a magnetic response or electrical conductivity and forms an essential part of the finished product.
A major consideration for most coating processes is that the coating is to be applied at a controlled thickness, and a number of different processes are in use to achieve this control, ranging from a simple brush for painting a wall, to some very expensive machinery applying coatings in the electronics industry. A further consideration for 'non-all-over' coatings is that control is needed as to where the coating is to be applied. A number of these non-all-over coating processes are printing processes.
Many industrial coating processes involve the application of a thin film of functional material to a substrate, such as paper, fabric, film, foil, or sheet stock. If the substrate starts and ends the process wound up in a roll, the process may be termed "roll-to-roll" or "web-based" coating. A roll of substrate, when wound through the coating machine, is typically called a web.
Usage examples of "coating".
The coating of acetylsalicylic acid, which was plain old aspirin, was around the more lethal viscera of the pills.
You will die of a heart attack, the aorta will be closed by a globule of the arteriosclerotic matter coating your veins, at nine-twenty-one PM, exactly one year, nine months and fourteen days from now.
The Babylonians and Assyrians attained to a high degree of proficiency in brickmaking, notably in the manufacture of bricks having a coating of coloured glaze or enamel, which they largely used for wall decoration.
Seth was coating the centerboard with Rust-Oleum so the steel plate gleamed with wet.
Feathers rained upon him, frosting his black hair, coating his wide bare shoulders, tangling in the black curls on his chest.
Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc.
According to the custom of the scryers she daubed the oil into the hollows of her eyepits, coating the scars with concealing blackness.
Breslaw was beaming fatuously, for the process was a new application of old techniques and the coating had been accomplished with relatively no halts or snags.
The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished glass dome with a purplish optical coating.
It was nearly as thin as spiderweb, and despite a coating of fluoropolymer, almost as invisible.
They are at least once a week to examine the guns and all the iron work of the carriages, and see that they are kept free from rust, and especially the eccentric axles, elevating screws, and pivot-bolts, which must be protected by a mixture of tallow and white-lead, or other similar coating.
She gripped him, struggling to pull him closer, and then suddenly her hips arched, as she thrust herself upon his keenly sensitive horn, and with blinding, earth-shattering clarity, Zarnak felt the burning tip breach her maidenhead, spearing into the depths of her pulsing cunt, her warm blood coating the silver casing of his horn in a scalding, deliciously wet wash of ecstasy.
Face, neck and hands became covered with mixture of lampblack and turpentine, forming a coating as thick as heavy brown paper, and absolutely irremovable by water alone.
Xaefyer lay on his back, eyes closed, arms and legs splayed out, foam coating his lower body, penis flaccid, breathing slowly but steadily.
Their outer coatings were still dull solid colors, and they continued to keep their heads lower than Nashi, Tell, and Ree did.