coat-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: (Cause to) form a layer or covering over.

Examples:
Next, coat the cake with chocolate icing.
Dirt coated her face.
We coated the walls with nontoxic finishes.
John coated the driveway with a thick layer of asphalt.

Mappings:
VerbNet: fill-9.8
FrameNet: Adorning,Filling
PropBank: coat.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3

Sense Number 2: COAT OUT: grow a coat of fur, as a dog might.

Commentary: Is: COAT OUT

Examples:
You never know how that breed will coat out.
Rabbits coat out rather young.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 3: COAT OUT: accomplish a process or goal (by forming a coat over), as part of a more complex process.

Commentary: Is: COAT OUT

Examples:
Polymer should coat out as a binder for the cast-forming composition.
They should coat out as a binder for the vinyl polymer.
The Prozac sensitivity should coat out denuclearized secateurs.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM