(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
(2) "It is a blue overcoat, made by Gieves & Hawkes , and their label is on the inside pocket," he says.
(3) Later, in the Adelphi's huge tearoom, the leaders of the overcoat brigade compared everything from songwriting styles to their appearances in photos (Morrissey's chin grows larger, Mac's recedes – both are horrified by the results).
(4) Outside a block of humble flats on Centre Street, two women in long overcoats jump out of a taxi, avoiding the torrents of rainwater pouring along the gutter as they carry a large plastic bucket.
(5) Photos of the event show Wilson in sandals, a short-sleeved shirt, and really quite short shorts while the gentlemen of the press (and they are all men) cluster around in ill-fitting suits and, bizarrely, overcoats.
(6) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.
(7) Plastic-covered mattresses were almost completely free from mites, but foci were found on soft furnishings and on the jackets and overcoats of hospital workers.
(8) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
(9) We are given mouldy overcoats that are so damp they're virtually liquid, and a cup of Soviet coffee – coffee with no coffee in it, made from barley.
(10) Vincent “was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs of shoes, three overcoats, and had appeared on American Bandstand ”.
(11) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
(12) Someone has spied him, bundled in an overcoat on the street outside.
(13) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(14) And he is keen to avoid misunderstanding, for the House abounds with overcoats of lesser quality.
(15) His scarf is long and stripy, his trainers a kaleidoscope of fluorescent colour and when he takes off his knee-length overcoat it is clear he thinks of his body in the same way Michelangelo used to think of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
(16) Crombie, the fashion house whose trademark tailored overcoats have enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to bands such as the Specials, is in talks to buy its British rival Aquascutum.
(17) The adult daily intake of tin was about 17 mg per day in 1940, but it has now decreased to about 3.5 mg, due to improvements in technique of tinning with enamel overcoat and crimped lids to minimize exposure to tin and lead solder.
(18) Grainy, newsreel black-and-white, stiff shop awnings, sky as interesting as tea crisscrossed with overheard tram wires, one or two parked cars, shuffling overcoats and - a beacon in all of this - the exotic promise of the Scala cinema on the right, advertising The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.
(19) "I want to wear sweaters, a scarf, the overcoat, the whole thing, like a Winona Ryder movie.
(20) Clad in a smart overcoat and hat, Jackson, now 70, remains a formidable presence and a compelling speaker.
Undercoat
Definition:
(n.) A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
(n.) A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microfilaments thus continuously undercoat the luminal membrane during exocytosis although the exocytic process involves the dilation and subsequent reduction of the luminal membrane due to the addition and removal of secretory granule membranes.
(2) Within the MVs, intravesicular filaments, amorphous material, and membrane-associated undercoat structures were observed.
(3) It is supposed that this undercoat gives the structural support for the lateral membrane of the apical region in the taste bud cells.
(4) In this study, using the isolated AJ, we have obtained two mAbs specific to the 220-kD undercoat-constitutive protein.
(5) An 82-kD protein has been purified from the undercoat of the adherens junction isolated from the rat liver.
(6) Together, these results lead us to conclude that radixin is present in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junctions and that of the cleavage furrow, although their respective molecular architectures are distinct.
(7) Radixin is an actin barbed-end capping protein which is highly concentrated in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junction and the cleavage furrow in the interphase and mitotic phase, respectively (Tsukita, Sa., Y. Hieda, and Sh.
(8) It was seen in the mitochondria and in the subplasmalemmal undercoat.
(9) Recent research has focused on the molecular linkage between cadherins and actin filaments in the undercoat of adherens junctions in order to understand the functions of these undercoat-constitutive proteins in the regulation and signal transduction of cadherin-based cell adhesion.
(10) Compared with the medium-energy-diet, the high-energy diet reduced hair weight per unit of surface area, undercoat number and guard hair medullation.
(11) The immunoelectron microscopy of the extensor digitorum longus muscles of six mdx mice and six control mice showed the location of anti-dystrophin antibody along the muscle plasma membrane undercoat of all the muscle samples from the control mice without any antibody reaction in the mdx mice muscles.
(12) The markedly reduced perturbability of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane, compared to other cells, has been attributed to the constraining influence of the red cell membrane skeleton, the undercoat composed of spectrin, actin, and protein 4.1.
(13) The plasmalemmal undercoat, which was composed of vertical and horizontal layers, was observed on the zonula occludens.
(14) Plasmamembrane and its cytoskeletal undercoat were characterized by electron microscopy in gap junctions (GJs) of steroidogenic cells of the guinea pig and bullfrog adrenal glands.
(15) The changes of in vitro cultivated cells have in contrast been confirmed with previous experimentation showing that the varnish itself causes toxicity for living cells and therefore is not convenient to undercoat cavities in the proximity of pulps.
(16) Goats that have been selected for production of this fine, downy undercoat are referred to as "Cashmere" goats.
(17) Immunofluorescence microscopy and immune electron microscopy have revealed that this protein is distributed not only at the undercoat of adherens junctions but also along actin bundles associated with the junction in nonmuscle cells: stress fibers in cultured fibroblasts and circumferential bundles in epithelial cells.
(18) The Bacillus subtilis spore coat consists of three morphological layers: a diffuse undercoat, a striated inner coat and a densely staining outer coat.
(19) The undercoat is a special form of the cytoskeleton-membrane interaction, though it constitutes a part of the cytoskeleton.
(20) These results show that the filaments may be closely associated with the plasmalemmal infoldings and included as the same category of plasmalemmal undercoat.