different between coating vs veneer

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

From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjan? (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??ni?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): [v??ni???]
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

veneer (countable and uncountable, plural veneers)

1. A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
2. An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.
   • 2014 December 5, "Joy From the World," The New York Times Magazine (retrieved 6 December 2014):

     “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”

Derived terms

• brick veneer

Translations

Verb

veneer (third-person singular simple present veneers, present participle veneering, simple past and past participle veneered)

1. (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To disguise with apparent goodness.

Translations

Anagrams

• Vereen, enerve, evener