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1. An outer garment with sleeves, worn outdoors and typically extending below the hips.
his coat pocket
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2. A protective outer garment worn indoors.
a laboratory coat
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3. A man's jacket, especially as worn when hunting or by soldiers.
It's long enough to wear over a sport coat or suit jacket.
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4. A woman's tailored jacket, worn with a skirt or dress.
Key focus continues to be short shift dresses, coats and skirts.
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5. An animal's covering of fur or hair.
a dog's coat may become tangled and matted
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6. An outer layer or covering.
The outer protein coat consists of a major and minor capsid protein.
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7. A single application of paint or similar material on a surface.
apply a final top coat of varnish
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8. A structure, especially a membrane, enclosing or lining an organ.
He did not recognize it to be the muscle coat of the oesophagus.
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9. The skin or husk of a fruit or seed.
In maize, as in all flowering plants, the seed develops inside a coat of maternal origin.
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10. A layer of a plant bulb.
Verb
1. Provide with a layer or covering of something.
her right leg was coated in plaster
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2. (of a substance) form a covering to.
a film of dust coated the floor
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Origin
1. Middle English from Old French cote, of unknown ultimate origin.

