primer coat

Questions about primer coat

What does primer coat mean?

primer coat means "the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface".

What is another word for primer coat?

Close synonyms include flat coat, ground, primer, priming, priming coat. 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 primer coat a common word?

primer coat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.