- present participle of coat.
coating
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Hearn was arrested in June after he said he reached into the water to touch a piece of the coating that had already detached from the bottom of the reflecting pool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The anchovy sizzled itself into the oil coating those browned alliums.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
"That's where we then come in, to give them the protective coating to effectively enable these new materials."
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
When it later strikes a protective coating, that charge can suddenly discharge at the point of impact, potentially damaging the material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Mom scratches her nose against her forearm because her hands are turning fish in a bowl of cornmeal, coating both sides before she dips it into hot oil in a frying pan.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
Individual powder granules are measured in micrometres, the coatings in nanometres - they are applied using a technique known as atomic layer deposition.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
To investigate the coatings, the researchers performed structural, molecular, and pollen analyses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Most indium goes into coatings for flat-panel displays, a mature market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Sales across its consumer brands group jumped 22% to $983.5 million, while sales across its performance coatings group climbed 6.3% to $1.91 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Huge gears lay exposed under the floor, wicked teeth intertwined, gleaming with oily coatings.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
