different between coating vs tegument

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?t??/, [?k?o?????]
  • Homophone: coding
• Rhymes: -??t??

Noun

coating (plural coatings)

1. A thin outer layer.

   They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.

2. (archaic) Cloth for making coats.
3. (law enforcement slang) A telling-off; a reprimand.
   • 1931, The Police Journal (volume 4, page 501)

     The bogey gave him a right coating.

Translations

Verb

coating

1. present participle of coat

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

Anagrams

• angio-CT, angioCT, cognati, cotinga, tacoing

English

Etymology

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) +? -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??.j?.m?nt/

Noun

tegument (plural teguments)

1. Something which covers; a covering or coating.
   • 1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
2. (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

Derived terms

• tegumental
• tegumentary
• tegumented

Related terms

• integument

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.

Noun

tegument n (plural tegumente)

1. tegument

Declension