coated, ppl. a.
(ˈkəʊtɪd)
[f. coat n. and v.]
1. a. Clad in a coat; furnished with or having a coat or coats. Often in parasynthetic comb., as long-coated, thick-coated. † coated card: = coat-card (applied by Foxe to the priests).
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. 919 (R.) Nowe commeth in Sir Thomas More trumping in our weie, with his painted card. Thus these coated-cardes, though they could not by plain Scriptures conuince him being alive, yet now after his death by false plaie they will make him theires whether he will or no. 1570 Levins Manip. 51 Coted..tunicatus. 1580 Blundevil Diet. Horses (1609) 12 b, Some horses are thicker coted than others. 1737 Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 3) s.v. Corona Imperialis, It hath a coated Root. 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 123 Hordes of long-coated peasants. |
b. Formed into a coat, constituting a coat. rare.
| 1814 Southey Roderick xii, The coated scales of steel Which o'er the tunic to his knees depend. |
† 2. Furnished with armorial bearings. Obs.
| 1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2576/4, 3 Casters, 6 Spoons, 2 Forks..all Coated, with a Bend betwixt 2 Swans. |
3. Covered with a coat or coating of some substance, as paint, tinfoil, etc. Also coated lens (see quot. 1948); coated paper (see quots.).
| 1766 Lane in Phil. Trans. LVII. 455 The quantity of electric fluid..will be proportionate to the quantity of coated glass. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 326 Myosurus..seeds numerous, coated, pendent. 1863 Wynter Subtle Brains & Lissom Fingers 341, A Leyden jar or coated pane. 1878 Abney Treat. Photogr. 124 The rapid evaporation of the solvents from the coated plate. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 341 The tongue was white, coated, and moist. 1892 Daily News 13 Apr. 2/8 Coated pills. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 17/1 ‘Coated’ paper..is paper which, after manufacture, is passed through a bath of a preparation of china clay. 1930 Engineering 3 Oct. 435/2 Very satisfactory welds have been secured with coated-metal electrodes. 1948 A. L. M. Sowerby Dict. Photogr. (ed. 17) 122 Coated lenses, lenses in which the surfaces of the various component glasses have been coated with a thin film, usually of silica or evaporated fluorite, to eliminate reflections... The coated lens gives more overall contrast. 1958 M. L. Hall et al. Newnes Complete Amat. Photogr. 77 With modern coated lenses, an average camera subject gives an image with a 50:1 range of intensities. 1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 86/1 Coated paper, paper coated with china clay or similar material and calendered to secure a highly-polished surface for use in process work. |
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▸ coated pit n. Cell Biol. an invagination of a cell membrane with a distinctive protein coat on the inner cytoplasmic surface of the lipid membrane.
| [1963 J. Rosenbluth & S. C. Wissig in Jrnl. Cell Biol. 19 91 a/2 ‘Coated’ cytoplasmic vesicles containing multiple particles presumably arose from the ‘coated’ invaginations.] 1967 Science 7 Apr. 107/1 The tracers appeared in *coated pits and vesicles and finally in lysosomes in the apical region of the cell. 1976 Cell & Tissue Res. 168 445 Microtubules are also seen running close to the coated pits of dendrites. 1989 Brain 112 908 These mechanisms would account for the patterns of myelin destruction seen in..phagocytosis of myelin debris, sometimes in association with coated pits. 1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) i. 2/2 (caption) The receptor begins life in the endoplasmic reticulum from which it travels to the Golgi complex, cell surface, coated pit, endosome, and back to the surface. |
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▸ coated vesicle n. Cell Biol. a vesicle formed from a coated pit, concerned with the transport of molecules between organelles in the cell and to and from the cell membrane.
| 1963 J. Rosenbluth & S. C. Wissig in Jrnl. Cell Biol. 19 91 a/2 The ‘*coated’ vesicles which form at the neuronal surface are pinocytotic vesicles capable of collecting and engulfing ferritin. 1967 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 35 357 (title) Functions of coated vesicles during protein absorption in the rat vas deferens. 1992 C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis ix. 191 The plasma membrane in this region invaginates and forms first a coated vesicle, and then an endosome. |