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coating

noun as in covering

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Reports show a coating to an inch fell between southern Fairfax and Prince William and central Charles counties.

It may extend into the immediate area at some point this evening, but the best chances of anything more than a coating are well to the south.

We can’t rule out a coating inside the Beltway, but the best chance for an inch or more is from around Fredericksburg and to the south.

A coating of snow to an inch or so is possible in our southern suburbs and more than that south of Fredericksburg.

A polyurethane coating soaks up sweat, keeping me from falling on my face, and an antimicrobial additive prevents it from smelling.

There was no sugar coating it, one senior Democratic strategist said.

Her bones stick up from the ground, and water has sealed them with a sparkling calcite coating.

There is no denying it, and there is no point in sugar-coating it.

Remove the butter and shortening from the freezer, and toss them with the dry ingredients, coating them well.

The Ceremony sought to put an audacious sugar-coating to Russian history new and old.

To begin with, the bar was of pinkish sandstone, smoothed and covered by a coating of plastic.

One of the latest uses to which asbestos has been proposed to be applied in connection with warfare is as a coating for ironclads.

Should the coating crack at the knee or elbow joints, it is merely necessary to retouch it slightly at those places.

But as the summer heat advances, the mask of the winter coating goes away, and we may then see the structure of the ice.

Over the wall was spread a coating of fine marble stucco for decorative purposes, which gave it a finish of dazzling white.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coating, such as: blanket, coat, crust, glaze, layer, and membrane.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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