coat

1. 1.

   put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface

   “coat the cake with chocolate”

   Synonymssurface

   Broadercover

   Narrowerrubberizeanodizegelatinizeskimstuccoeggencrustdredgesootrefinish
2. 2.

   cover or provide with a coat

   Broaderdress
3. 3.

   form a coat over

   “Dirt had coated her face”

   Synonymscake

   Broadercover

Other forms of coat

plural

coats·

past tense

coated·

present participle

coating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coat

What does coat mean?

coat means "an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coat?

coat has 1 syllable: coat. In IPA it is /ˈkoʊt/.

What is another word for coat?

Close synonyms include coating, pelage, surface, cake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coat a common word?

coat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with coat?

8 words rhyme with coat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.