The Meaning of coat

• (n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
• (n.) A petticoat.
• (n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
• (n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
• (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
• (n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.
• (n.) A coat card. See below.
• (v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.
• (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

Synonyms

coating , pelage , covering , finishing , application , finish , turn up , show up , rise , come up , surface , cake , come on , come out , rise up , cover

Homophones

cote , kote

Rhymes

afloat , anecdote , antidote , asymptote , bacote , banknote , banxquote , bloat , boat , capote , chipote , choat , choate , connote , cote , creosote , cutthroat , demote , denote , devote , dote , ferryboat , flatboat , float , footnote , gloat , goat , groat , grote , gunboat , haute , hinote , houseboat , keynote , kote , lifeboat , misquote , moat , mote , motorboat , note , oat , outvote , overcoat , petticoat , pote , powerboat , promote , quote , raincoat , redcoat , remote , rewrote , roat , rote , rowboat , sailboat , scapegoat , shoat , shote , showboat , sloate , smote , speedboat , sproat , steamboat , stoat , terre-haute , throat , tote , towboat , tugboat , turncoat , uncoat , undercoat , underwrote , unquote , vogt , vote , wrote