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blanket
[ blang-kit ]
noun
- a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- a similar piece of fabric used as a covering for a horse, dog, etc.
- the chief garment traditionally worn by some American Indians.
- any extended covering or layer:
a blanket of snow.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- Printing.
- (in a press for offset printing) the rubber-covered cylinder to which an inked impression is transferred from the plate for transfer directly to the paper.
- (in a press for letterpress printing) the resilient covering on the cylinder against which the paper is pressed in printing.
- a thick roll or strip of material for thermal insulation.
verb (used with object)
- to cover with or as with a blanket:
wild flowers blanketing the hillside.
- to obscure or obstruct; interfere with; overpower (usually followed by out ):
An electrical storm blanketed out the radio program.
- to toss (someone) in a blanket, as in fraternity hazing.
- Nautical. (of a vessel) to take wind from the sails of (another vessel) by passing closely to windward.
adjective
- covering or intended to cover a large group or class of things, conditions, situations, etc.:
a blanket proposal; a blanket indictment.
blanket
/ ˈ²ú±ôæŋ°ìɪ³Ù /
noun
- a large piece of thick cloth for use as a bed covering, animal covering, etc, enabling a person or animal to retain natural body heat
- a concealing cover or layer, as of smoke, leaves, or snow
- a rubber or plastic sheet wrapped round a cylinder, used in offset printing to transfer the image from the plate, stone, or forme to the paper
- physics a layer of a fertile substance placed round the core of a nuclear reactor as a reflector or absorber and often to breed new fissionable fuel
- modifier applying to or covering a wide group or variety of people, conditions, situations, etc
blanket insurance against loss, injury, and theft
- born on the wrong side of the blanket informal.illegitimate
verb
- to cover with or as if with a blanket; overlie
- to cover a very wide area, as in a publicity campaign; give blanket coverage
- usually foll by out to obscure or suppress
the storm blanketed out the TV picture
- nautical to prevent wind from reaching the sails of (another sailing vessel) by passing to windward of it
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú±ô²¹²Ôk±ð³Ù·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ²ú±ô²¹²Ôk±ð³Ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²ú±ô²¹²Ôk±ð³Ù·±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of blanket1
Idioms and Phrases
- born on the wrong side of the blanket, born out of wedlock.
More idioms and phrases containing blanket
see security blanket ; wet blanket .Example Sentences
“There is a blanket of secrecy over the paperwork that flows to the CPUC, that never gets to the public domain,†he said.
At regular intervals, a team emerges from the site carrying a body covered by a blanket on a stretcher.
"A calming room should be a room for children to calm down with blankets, teddies and soft lighting. Not a padded cell. You wouldn't put an animal in there."
The guests and I are seated on blanketed chairs, in-the-round inside a horse paddock.
Those devices, which weigh 200 pounds or more, were wrapped in fire blankets and trucked to an EPA temporary processing site to be disassembled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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