blanket
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).
Inflected forms:
form: blankets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blankets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blanketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blanketting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blanketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blanketed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blanketted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blanketted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
pos: noun
examples: The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
gloss: A covering layer of anything.
pos: noun
examples: The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.
There was no difficulty in sighting the semaphores from this timely warning to each one; but it would have been another matter if the driver had to peer continuously into that white blanket [fog] looking for them without any pre-warning.
gloss: A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
pos: noun
examples: A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
gloss: A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
pos: noun
gloss: General; covering or encompassing everything.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach
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.
By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.
The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.
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.
gloss: To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
pos: verb
tags: attributive
transitive
examples: A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
[…] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and perſecution of the skie, / […]
I see the moon go off watch and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
The whole world was shut away outside in blood-red glory, as he rocked in his cradle on the immaculate sea, where the warm air blanketted him above the water sheets cold below.
Leaping lightly on his back he led the grateful horse in an easy canter back to the stable where he waited and watched as the stable girl rubbed him down and blanketted him.
The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds. Then snow blanketted the fire. Birds sang in the snow, and I awoke.
The miners slowly walked up the steep crater walls, stopping frequently while clouds of sulfurous gas blanketed the crater in the background.
In another damaging twist, former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, who blanketed television networks after President Joe Biden’s victory to falsely claim he was elected because of fraud, reached a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors.
gloss: To traverse or complete thoroughly.
pos: verb
tags: attributive
transitive
examples: The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
gloss: To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
pos: verb
tags: attributive
transitive
examples: Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.
Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall.
gloss: To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
pos: verb
tags: attributive
transitive
gloss: To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: attributive
transitive
gloss: Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
pos: verb
tags: attributive
Related words: comforter
doona
duvet
quilt
Derived words: big blue blanket
biliblanket
blanket ass
blanket ballot
blanket ban
blanket bath
blanket bog
blanket-bomb
blanket bush
blanket chest
blanket-coat
blanket finish
blanketflower
blanket flower
blanket fort
blanket head
blanket insulation
blanketless
blanket lien
blanketlike
blanket loan
blanketly
blanketmaker
blanketmaking
blanketman
blanket octopus
blanket order
blanket party
blanket sheet
blanket statement
blanket stitch
blanket-stitch
blanket term
blanketweed
blankety
blankie
blanky
blue blanket
California blanket
Chilkat blanket
dog in a blanket
electric blanket
fire blanket
Hoover blanket
horse blanket
Hudson's Bay blanket
Indian blanket
Linus blanket
Murrumbidgee blanket
on the blanket
on the wrong side of the blanket
overblanket
pig in a blanket
point blanket
put a blanket over
quarter blanket
reblanket
receiving blanket
saddle blanket
sauna blanket
security blanket
Slanket
space blanket
split the blanket
stick like shit to a blanket
throw a wet blanket on
throw blanket
tyre blanket
unblanketed
underblanket
wet blanket
wet-blanket
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