coat
noun/kəʊt/
Слово англійською: coat
Переклад coat українською: пальто
Детальний опис
- a piece of outdoor clothing that is worn over other clothes to keep warm or dry. Coats have sleeves (= parts covering the arms) and may be long or short.
- to wear a coat
- to put on/take off your coat
- a fur coat
- a leather coat
- a long winter coat
- in a coat a man in a black coat
- I dressed in my finest blue wool coat.
- He slipped the letter into his coat pocket.
- (North American English) (old-fashioned in BrE) a jacket that is worn as part of a suit see also frock coat, morning coat, tailcoat, waistcoat
- the fur, hair or wool that covers an animal’s body
- a dog with a smooth/shaggy coat
- animals in their winter coats (= grown long for extra warmth)
- a layer of paint or some other substance that covers a surface
- to give the walls a second coat of paint
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cote, of unknown ultimate origin.
Idioms
cut your coat according to your cloth
- (saying) to do only what you have enough money to do and no more
- We wanted to buy a bigger house than this but it was a case of cutting our coat according to our cloth.