blanket
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blanket (plural blankets)
- A cloth, usually large, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
- A layer of anything.
- The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
- A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
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cloth
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layer of anything
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blanket (not comparable)
- In general; covering or encompassing everything.
- They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
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covering or encompassing everything
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[edit] Verb
blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing, simple past and past participle blanketed)
- (transitive) To cover.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
- (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
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blanket
- form (document)
