blanket

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Etymology

From Middle English blanket, blonket, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: 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.

Pronunciation

A cat on a blanket.
  • IPA(key): /ˈblæŋkɪt/
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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.
    • 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.
  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)

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Adjective

blanket (not comparable)

  1. General; covering or encompassing everything.
    They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
    a blanket ban

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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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I'll […] blanket my loins.
    A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  2. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
    The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
  3. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
    • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
  4. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
  5. To nullify the impact of someone or something.

Translations

Danish

Noun

blanket

  1. form (document)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English blanket.

Noun

blanket

  1. blanket
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