Layer vs. Coating — What's the Difference?

A sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body

A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both.Paints and lacquers are coatings that mostly have dual uses of protecting the substrate and being decorative, although some artists paints are only for decoration, and the paint on large industrial pipes is presumably only for the function of preventing corrosion.

A person or thing that lays something

A layer of a substance spread over a surface as for protection or decoration; a covering layer.

A shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant

Cloth for making coats.

Arrange in a layer or layers

A thin outer layer.

Propagate (a plant) as a layer

(archaic) Cloth for making coats.

One that lays

A telling-off; a reprimand.

A hen kept for laying eggs.

Present participle of coat

A single thickness of a material covering a surface or forming an overlying part or segment

A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

A usually horizontal deposit or expanse; a stratum

Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

A depth or level

A thin layer covering something;

(Botany) A stem that is covered with soil for rooting while still part of the living plant.

A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance);

An item of clothing worn over or under another.

A heavy fabric suitable for coats

To divide or form into layers

The work of applying something;

To cut (hair) into different, usually overlapping lengths.

(Botany) To propagate (a plant) by means of a layer.

To wear (clothing) in layers.

To form or come apart as layers.

(Botany) To take root as a result of layering.

A single thickness of some material covering a surface.

An item of clothing worn under or over another.

A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

One of the items in a hierarchy.

One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.

A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.

A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.

A hen kept to lay eggs.

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

(ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.

(ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.

One who, or that which, lays.

That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

An artificial oyster bed.

Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;

A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

An abstract place usually conceived as having depth;

A hen that lays eggs

Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

Make or form a layer;