coating

English

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coating (plural coatings)

A thin outer layer.
They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
- 1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106:
  "Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.
- 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 48:
  You can, if you like, give the completed cork wall a protective coating of sealer, stain, varnish, wax or polish, so you will be able to use liquid cleaners on it.
(archaic) Cloth for making coats.
(law enforcement slang) A telling-off; a reprimand.
- 1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501:
  The bogey gave him a right coating.

a thin outer layer

Bulgarian: слой (bg) m (sloj), облицовка (bg) f (oblicovka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 塗層／涂层 (zh) (túcéng)
Esperanto: tegaĵo
Finnish: pinnoite (fi), kuorrute
French: couche (fr) f, pellicule (fr) f, enrobage (fr) m
Galician: capa (gl) f, baño (gl) m
German: Beschichtung (de) f
Hebrew: מַעֲטֶה (he) m (ma'até)
Hungarian: bevonat (hu), réteg (hu)
Ido: induto (io), induturo (io)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: слој m (sloj)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: پوشش (fa) (pušeš)
Plautdietsch: Schicht f
Portuguese: camada (pt) f
Romanian: strat (ro)
Russian: слой (ru) m (sloj), облицо́вка (ru) f (oblicóvka), покро́в (ru) m (pokróv)
Spanish: capa (es) f, recubrimiento (es) m
Telugu: పూత (te) (pūta)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: kaplama (tr)

coating

present participle and gerund of coat
We spent hours coating the truffles with cocoa powder so they wouldn't be sticky.