What does "blanketing" mean?
Cloth for making blankets.
Blanketing
noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Cloth for making blankets.
- Grammar: blanketing is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: allencompassing, cloak, cloth, coat.
- Useful contrasts: bare, clear, constrain.
- Usage evidence: Images from U.S. satellites show smoke blanketing South America from the thousands of fires burning in the Amazon.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Cloth for making blankets. countable, uncountable
"1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23, But, now-a-days, many of them wear their Apparel of a dark brown colour, almost like Heath, that so, lying in the Heath-bushes, they might not, in the day-time, be discovered by their Cloaths. Being rather loosly happ’d, than closely covered, with this sort of Blanketing, they endure the fiercest weather […]"
- 2 A layer of something that covers like a blanket. countable
"blanketings of snow"
- 3 The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. countable, uncountable
"Himself among the storied chiefs he spies, As from the blanket high in air he flies, And oh! (he cry'd) what street, what lane but knows Our purgings, pumpings, blanketings and blows?"
- 4 A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails. countable, slang, uncountable
"The latter hailed for water, and was so much more nimble in coming round, that she managed to get on ‘Gwendolin’s’ weather before she had gathered way, and gave her such a complete blanketing as left her almost in irons."
- 5 The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains. countable, uncountable
"The track blanketing required excavation of up and down main lines to a depth of 4½ft below rail level for 1⅜ miles, to allow the defective track bed to be removed and replaced by a new formation. [...] a layer of polythene was employed by the E.R. at the base of the new formation; [...] On top of the polythene is laid the sand, as a blanketing and drainage medium, and above that the ballast."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of blanket form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
"Images from U.S. satellites show smoke blanketing South America from the thousands of fires burning in the Amazon."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "blanketing"?
Common synonyms include: allencompassing, cloak, cloth, coat, coated, coating.
How do you use "blanketing" in a sentence?
Images from U.S. satellites show smoke blanketing South America from the thousands of fires burning in the Amazon.
Etymology
By surface analysis, blanket + -ing.