blanket

blan·ket

Use blanket in a sentence

A baby laying on a pink blanket.

adjective

The definition of blanket is something that covers all cases or all instances of something.
A law banning all guns would be an example of a blanket ban on guns.

noun

A blanket is defined as something that covers another surface completely, or is a soft piece of cloth or material that is used to cover.
1. When snow has completely covered over all of the land, this is an example of a blanket of snow.
2. A large flat piece of cotton that is on your bed that you use to cover yourself when you get cold is an example of a blanket.

verb

Blanket means to cover something completely or to stifle something.
1. When snow covers the entire earth this is an example of when the snow blankets the earth.
2. When a window keeps noise from entering your home, this is an example of when it blankets the noise.

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blanket

a large piece of cloth, often of soft wool, used for warmth as a bed cover or a covering for animals
anything used as or resembling a blanket; covering: a blanket of leaves

Origin of blanket

Middle English from Old French blanchet, diminutive of blanc, white: see blank

covering a group of conditions or requirements; including many or all items: a blanket insurance policy

to cover with or as with a blanket; overspread; overlie
to apply uniformly to: said of regulations or rates
to cut off wind from the sails of (another boat) by passing close to windward, as in yacht racing
to suppress; hinder; obscure: a powerful radio station blankets a weaker one
Archaic to toss in a blanket, as in punishment

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blanket

noun

A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.
A layer that covers or encloses: a thick blanket of snow.

adjective

Applying to or covering all conditions or instances: a blanket insurance policy.
Applying to or covering all members of a class: blanket sanctions against human-rights violators.

transitive verb

blan·ket·ed, blan·ket·ing, blan·kets

To cover with or as if with a blanket: leaves that blanket the ground.
To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish: blanketed the grease fire with sand.
To apply to generally and uniformly without exception: high telephone service charges that blanketed our region.

Origin of blanket

Middle English from Old French an unbleached soft cloth from blanc white of Germanic origin ; see bhel-¹ in Indo-European roots.

blanket

Tlingit blanket made of mountain goat wool with a fringe of cedar bark

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Noun

(plural blankets)

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.
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.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Adjective

(not comparable)

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

Verb

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

To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
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.
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

Origin

Old French blanchet, diminutive of blanc (“white”).

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See offset press.

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