blanket

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Etymology

From Middle English blanket, blonket, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. blanket, blankete, blanquette (Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”). More at blank. Apparently cognate to blunket, plunket. Displaced native Old English hwītel.

Pronunciation

A cat on a blanket.
  • IPA(key): /ˈblæŋkɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
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  • Rhymes: -æŋkɪt

Noun

blanket (plural blankets)

  1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
    The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
  2. A layer of anything.
    The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
  3. 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.
  4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Derived terms

Terms derived from blanket (noun and adjective)

Descendants

  • → Swahili: blanketi

Translations

See also

Adjective

blanket (not comparable) (only attributive)

  1. General; covering or encompassing everything.
    Synonyms: all-encompassing, exhaustive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
    • 1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities:
      Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
    • 2009, Gayle Letherby, ‎Kate Williams, ‎Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57:
      Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach
    • 2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428:
      Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.
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    • 2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty (page 207)
      The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.
    • 2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu‎[1]:
      Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.

Translations

Verb

blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing, simple past and past participle blanketed)

  1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
    A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  2. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
    The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
  3. (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
  4. (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
  5. (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
  6. Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Translations

Danish

Noun

blanket ?

  1. form (document)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English blanket.

Noun

blanket

  1. blanket
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