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Coating vs Cladding - What's the difference?

coating | cladding |

As nouns the difference between coating and cladding

is that coating is a thin outer layer while cladding is clothing; clothes.

As verbs the difference between coating and cladding

is that coating is present participle of lang=en while cladding is present participle of lang=en.

coating

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin outer layer.
    • They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
  • (archaic) Cloth for making coats.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • We spent hours coating the truffles with cocoa powder so they wouldn't be sticky.

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    cladding

    English

    (wikipedia cladding)

    Noun

  • (rare) Clothing; clothes.
  • Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
  • (construction) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

    • Verb

    (head)