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say it: KOH-tuhd
coated is an adjective meaning "having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination". It carries 2 recorded senses.
having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination
“coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing”
“sugar-coated pills”
having or dressed in a coat
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coated come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.