päällystää — meaning in English

English meaning

• clad adj Dressed or covered in something, especially clothing or a protective layer.
• coat noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
• overlay verb To lay or spread one thing over another.
• pave verb To cover a surface such as a road or path with a hard material like concrete, stone, or asphalt.
• plate noun A flat, shallow dish used for serving or eating food.

Senses

päällystää is used for these senses in English:

• clad (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
• coat (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
• overlay (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
• pave (Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
• plate To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

clad — full definition

1. adj Dressed or covered in something, especially clothing or a protective layer.
2. verb To cover something with a protective outer layer, such as insulation or panelling.

coat — full definition

1. noun An outer garment worn over other clothes, typically with sleeves.
2. noun A layer of a substance, such as paint, covering a surface.
3. noun The fur or hair covering an animal.
4. verb To cover something with a layer of a substance.

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