different between coat vs storey

English

Alternative forms

• cote (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

1. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp

   • 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.

   • 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.

2. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp
3. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp

4. (uncountable, nautical) 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).
5. (obsolete) A petticoat.

   • a child in coats

6. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn

     Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint

     She was sought by spirits of richest coat.

7. A coat of arms.^Wp
8. A coat card.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: koto

Translations

Verb

coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)

1. (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
2. (transitive) To cover like a coat.
3. (transitive, archaic) To clothe.

Translations

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco

English

Alternative forms

• story (US)

Etymology

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and record)”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches.

An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st????/, /?st???i/
• Rhymes: -??ri
• Homophone: story

Noun

storey (plural storeys)

1. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.
2. (Britain) A floor or level of a building or ship.

   Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story

   Coordinate term: deck

3. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.

Usage notes

The terms floor, level, or deck are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Oyster, Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes