Infuse vs Coat - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between infuse and coat

is that infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill while coat is to cover with a coat of some material.

As a noun coat is

an outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^{Wp

infuse English
Verb
(infus)
To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
* Coxe
One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
* Shakespeare
infusing him with self and vain conceit
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
* Jonathan Swift
Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(Francis Bacon)
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .
References
* 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
* 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.
See also
* fuse
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coat English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)
Noun
(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.
Derived terms
* buffy coat
* coat of arms
* greatcoat
* covert-coat
* overcoat
Verb
(en verb)
To cover with a coat of some material
One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
To cover as a coat.
Anagrams
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