Overcoat

Quick meaning: Overcoat is a noun meaning A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. An outer coat, an outer coating (of paint, etc).
2. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: topcoat

Wait 24 hours before applying an overcoat.

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

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

Word Forms

• overcoats
• overcoating
• overcoated

Synonyms for overcoat

Depending on context, synonyms include topcoat, surcoat, greatcoat, overcoating.

Antonyms for overcoat

Common opposites include undercoat, basecoat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greatcoat, surcoat, topcoat, raincoat, cloak, coat.

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