1) Coat 2) Coating 3) The act of applying veneer 4) Veneer 1) Veneer 
• (n.) Thin wood or other material used as a veneer. • (n.) The act or art of one who veneers. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veneer
The art of utilizing thin layers of fine woods to their best decorative and structural advantage by lamination to a core of less valuable wood.
Facing a substrate with a thin layer of ornamental wood
Ve·neer'ing noun 1. The act or art of one who veneers. 2. Thin wood or other material used as a veneer. 
[n] - the act of applying veneer
noun coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood noun the act of applying veneer