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Blanket
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- 1 General; covering or encompassing everything. attributive, not-comparable
"Another observer offered a less blanket criticism."
- 1 broad in scope or content wordnet
- 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."
- 2 bedding that keeps a person warm in bed wordnet
- 3 A covering layer of anything.
"The city woke under a thick blanket of fog."
- 4 a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 anything that covers wordnet
- 7 A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
- 1 To cover with, or as if with, a blanket. attributive, transitive
"A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area."
- 2 cover as if with a blanket wordnet
- 3 To traverse or complete thoroughly. attributive, transitive
"The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood."
- 4 form a blanket-like cover (over) wordnet
- 5 To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. attributive, transitive
"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."
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- 6 To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it. attributive, transitive
- 7 To nullify the impact of (someone or something). attributive, transitive
- 8 Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal. attributive
Etymology
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”)).
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”)).
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”)).
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