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n. A white, knee-length coat worn by laboratory workers etc as protection.
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A white coat or laboratory coat (often abbreviated to lab coat) is a knee-length overcoat/ smock worn by professionals in the medical field or by those involved in laboratory work. The coat protects their street clothes and also serves as a simple uniform. The garment is made from white or light-colored cotton, linen, or cotton polyester blend, allowing it to be washed at high temperature and make it easy to see if it is clean.
Similar coats are a symbol of learning in Argentina and Uruguay, where they are worn by both students and teachers in state schools. In Tunisia and Mozambique, teachers wear white coats to protect their street clothes from chalk.
Like the word " suit", the phrase "white coat" is sometimes used as a synecdoche to denote the wearer, such as a scientist working in a high-tech company.
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White coat may refer to:
- White coat, a knee-length overcoat/smock
- WhiteCoats, a term used by the tobacco industry to refer to academic scientists who were hired to remain concealed, while working for the cigarette companies. They were paid on a job basis, rather than retainer.
- Whitecoat, a newborn harp or grey seal with soft, white fur
- Operation Whitecoat, a secret operation carried out by the US Army during the period 1954-1973
- White coat ceremony, a relatively new ritual in some medical schools and pharmacy schools
- White coat hypertension, a phenomenon in which patients exhibit elevated blood pressure in a clinical setting but not when recorded by themselves at home
- White Coat, Black Art, a Canadian radio documentary series
- White-coated titi, Callicebus pallescens, a species of titi, a type of New World monkey,
- Intern Academy, a Canadian movie named White Coats in the United States
- "White Coats", a song by Foxes from Glorious
Usage examples of "white coat".
Without it, he would have been merely a researcher, a man in a white coat, not white armor.
There was a doctor there, wearing a white coat and looking down at the man Johnston had shot.
The firelizards arrived in full fair at the delta and enthusiastically helped him sully Ruth's white coat with the clinging black mud.
The fire-lizards arrived in full fair at the delta and enthusiastically helped him sully Ruth's white coat with the clinging black mud.
By the time we got inside she was unconscious and my white coat was a scarlet flag of blood.