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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishblanket,blonket,blaunket, fromOld Northern Frenchblanket,blancet(“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally“that which is white”) (whence ModernFrenchblanchet), diminutive ofblanc(“white”), ofGermanic origin (compareOld Englishblanca(“white horse”); see more atblank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely acalque ofOld Englishhwītel(“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old Englishhwīt(“white”) +-el(diminutive suffix). Compare alsoOld Norsehvítill(“a white bed-cover, sheet”),Norwegiankvitel(“blanket”).

Compare alsoblunket,plunket. Displaced nativeMiddle Englishwhytel, fromOld Englishhwītel (whence Modern Englishwhittle(“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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a cat on a blanket.

blanket (pluralblankets)

  2. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used forwarmth whilesleeping or resting.
    The baby was cold, so his mother put ablanket over him.
  3. Acoveringlayer of anything.
    The city woke under a thickblanket of fog.
    • 1948 March and April, “Noes and News: Slab Blanketing at Clapham Junction”, inRailway Magazine, page131:
      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.
  4. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from theplate to the paper being printed.
    A press operator must carefully wash theblanket whenever changing a plate.
  5. Astreak orlayer ofblubber inwhales.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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fabric
layer of anything

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Adjective

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blanket (notcomparable)(only attributive)

  1. General; covering orencompassingeverything.
    Synonyms:all-encompassing,exhaustive;see alsoThesaurus:comprehensive
    • 1994, Deborah Dash Moore,To the Golden Cities:
      Another observer offered a lessblanket criticism.
    • 2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch,Sex as Crime, page57:
      Some others appear to be adopting a moreblanket approach
    • 2010, Jay Cassell,The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page428:
      Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-lessblanket endorsement of the old ways.
    • 2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov,Learning and Cognition in Autism, page187:
      By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict tooblanket a degree of social disinterest.
    • 2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez,The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page207:
      The second reason offered forblanket 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 againstblanket ban on firecrackers”, inThe Hindu‎[1]:
      Tamil Nadu Chief MinisterM.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider theblanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.

Translations

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covering or encompassing everything

Verb

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blanket (third-person singular simple presentblankets,present participleblanketingorblanketting,simple past and past participleblanketedorblanketted)

  1. (transitive) Tocover with, or as if with, a blanket.
    A fresh layer of snowblanketed the area.
    • c.1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published1608,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:
      […] / 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, /[…]
    • 1884 December 10,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London:Chatto & Windus, […],→OCLC,page64:
      I see the moon go off watch and the darkness begin toblanket the river.
    • 1963,Edwin Samuel, “Sun in My Eyes”, inMy Friend Musa and Other Stories, London; New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Abelard-Schuman,→LCCN,page 3:
      The whole world was shut away outside in blood-red glory, as he rocked in his cradle on the immaculate sea, where the warm airblanketted him above the water sheets cold below.
    • 1992, Ann C. Fallon,Dead Ends: A James Fleming Mystery, New York, N.Y.:Pocket Books,→ISBN,page127:
      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 andblanketted him.
    • 1994,Harold Brodkey, “Changing Room or What a Profane Friendship Is Like”, inProfane Friendship, San Francisco, Calif.:Mercury House,→ISBN,page151:
      The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds. Then snowblanketted the fire. Birds sang in the snow, and I awoke.
    • 2023 October 25, Stephen Collinson, “Trump rages as former acolytes turn against him under legal heat”, inCNN‎[2]:
      In another damaging twist, former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, whoblanketed television networks after President Joe Biden’s victory to falsely claim he was elected because of fraud, reached a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors.
  2. (transitive) Totraverse orcompletethoroughly.
    The salesmanblanketed the entire neighborhood.
  3. (transitive) Totoss in a blanket by way ofpunishment.
  4. (transitive) To take thewind out of thesails of (another vessel) by sailing towindward of it.
  5. (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
  6. Of aradiosignal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Translations

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to cover
to traverse or complete

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Noun

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blanket c

  1. form (document)

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Old French

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Noun

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blanketoblique singular, m (oblique pluralblankezorblanketz,nominative singularblankezorblanketz,nominative pluralblanket)

  1. alternative form ofblancet

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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FromEnglishblanket.

Noun

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blanket

  1. blanket
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