overcoat

From over- + coat.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəkəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚkoʊt/

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• Hyphenation: over‧coat

overcoat (plural overcoats)

1. A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

   Hypernym: coat

   Hyponyms: greatcoat, watchcoat, British warm, balmacaan, raglan

   Coordinate term: overshoes

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

2. An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).

   Antonyms: undercoat, basecoat

   Hypernym: coat

   Near-synonym: topcoat

   Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.

• (coating): clearcoat

overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)

1. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.

   Hypernym: coat

   Hyponyms: overpaint, paint over

   Coordinate terms: topcoat, clearcoat (often coinstantial)

   Wait 24 hours before overcoating with either this product or a clearcoat.

   • 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:

     One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

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