Coat vs Decorate - What's the difference?
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(lb) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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*:Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
(lb) A covering of material, such as paint.(w)
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
(lb) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.
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Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
(lb) A petticoat.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:a child in coats
The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She was sought by spirits of richest coat .
A coat of arms.(w)
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat .
A coat card.
*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
*:Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
To cover with a coat of some material
To cover as a coat.
To furnish with decorations.
To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
(computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
As verbs the difference between coat and decorate
is that coat is to cover with a coat of some material while decorate is to furnish with decorations.As a noun coat
is (lb) an outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.coat
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
Derived terms
* buffy coat * coat of arms * greatcoat * covert-coat * overcoatVerb
(en verb)- One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
Anagrams
* * * * 1000 English basic wordsdecorate
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Verb
(decorat)- It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.