-coated combines with colour adjectives such as 'white' and 'red', or words for types of coat like 'fur', to form adjectives that describe someone as wearing a certain sort of coat.
At the top of the stairs stood the white-coated doctors.
2. combining form
-coated combines with names of substances such as 'sugar' and 'plastic' to form adjectives that describe something as being covered with athin layer of that substance.
...chocolate-coated sweets.
...plastic-coated wire.
coated in British English
(ˈkəʊtɪd)
adjective
1.
covered with an outer layer, film, etc
2.
(of paper) having a coating of a mineral, esp china clay, to provide a very smooth surface
3.
(of textiles) having been given a plastic or other surface
4. photography, optics another word for bloomed
Examples of 'coated' in a sentence
coated
Beneath a bright moon, frost sparkled on the empty pavements and coated the cars lining the kerbs in a uniform white crust.
Stewart, Michael GRACE
His blond hair was plastered against his head, and his eyelashes were coated with cereal flakes.