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Cloak vs Overcoat - What's the difference?

cloak | overcoat |

As nouns the difference between cloak and overcoat

is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while overcoat is a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

As verbs the difference between cloak and overcoat

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while overcoat is to apply an exterior coating to.

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘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.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device

    overcoat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , chapter=5, title= The China Governess , passage=‘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.’}}

    See also

    * balmacaan * raglan

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply an exterior coating to.
  • * 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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