coat

«coat» in Mova's school dictionary: a warm piece of clothing with sleeves that you wear over… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a coat, coats); verb (coat, coats, coated, coating)

meaning for a pupil

1) A coat is a warm piece of clothing with sleeves that you wear over your other clothes when you go outside. tree →

2) An animal's coat is its fur or hair. tree →

3) A coat of paint or another liquid is a thin layer spread over a surface. tree →

4) To coat something means to cover it with a thin layer of something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety a coat keeps you warm and dry in cold, wet or windy weather; «put your coat on», «hang up your coat», «take off your coat». In science an animal's thick coat keeps it warm in winter, and many animals grow a thicker coat before winter and shed it in spring. In art and DIY you give a fence «a second coat». In cooking you «coat the chicken in breadcrumbs». In stories a coat often shows the weather or who someone is (a long black coat, a raincoat).

examples

• Put your coat on, it's freezing outside. tree →
• She hung her wet coat on the hook by the door. tree →
• The dog's shiny coat shows that it is healthy. tree →
• Arctic foxes grow a white coat in winter. tree →
• Dad gave the shed two coats of paint. tree →
• Coat the apples in melted chocolate. tree →
• My winter coat has a hood and deep pockets. tree →
• The cat's coat was covered in burrs after the walk. tree →
• He sewed them on his coat. tree →

note

Countable: a coat, two coats. «Coat» (outdoor) is different from «jacket» (shorter, lighter), but people often mix them. A «raincoat» keeps off rain, a «lab coat» is worn in science labs. As a verb it takes «in» or «with»: coat it in flour, coated with ice. Do not confuse with «cot» (a baby's bed).

In the corpora

• One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.
• Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.
• Donkeys love to roll in dust, which scratches itches, cleans the coat and keeps off flies.
• Labradors were bred to fetch from water, with a thick waterproof coat and a thick otter-like tail used as a rudder.
• Bumblebees can fly on cold days because they shiver their flight muscles to warm up, and their furry coats keep the heat in.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «coat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.