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blan⋅ket

  [blang-kit]
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–noun
1. a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used esp. for warmth as a bed covering.
2. a similar piece of fabric used as a covering for a horse, dog, etc.
3. the chief garment traditionally worn by some American Indians.
4. any extended covering or layer: a blanket of snow.
5. Printing.
a. (in a press for offset printing) the rubber-covered cylinder to which an inked impression is transferred from the plate for transfer directly to the paper.
b. (in a press for letterpress printing) the resilient covering on the cylinder against which the paper is pressed in printing.
6. a thick roll or strip of material for thermal insulation.
–verb (used with object)
7. to cover with or as with a blanket: wild flowers blanketing the hillside.
8. to obscure or obstruct; interfere with; overpower (usually fol. by out): An electrical storm blanketed out the radio program.
9. to toss (someone) in a blanket, as in fraternity hazing.
10. Nautical. (of a vessel) to take wind from the sails of (another vessel) by passing closely to windward.
–adjective
11. covering or intended to cover a large group or class of things, conditions, situations, etc.: a blanket proposal; a blanket indictment.
—Idiom
12. born on the wrong side of the blanket, born out of wedlock.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF, OF, equiv. to blanc white (see blank ) + -et -et

Related forms:
blan⋅ket⋅less, adjective
blan⋅ket⋅like, adjective

Synonyms:
4. cover, coat, mantle, overlay, coating.
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blan·ket   (blāng'kĭt)   
n.  
  1. A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.
  2. A layer that covers or encloses: a thick blanket of snow.
adj.  
  1. Applying to or covering all conditions or instances: a blanket insurance policy.
  2. Applying to or covering all members of a class: blanket sanctions against human-rights violators.
tr.v.   blan·ket·ed, blan·ket·ing, blan·kets
  1. To cover with or as if with a blanket: leaves that blanket the ground.
  2. To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish: blanketed the grease fire with sand.
  3. To apply to generally and uniformly without exception: high telephone service charges that blanketed our region.

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

Blan"ket\, n. [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

2. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. --Nares.

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!" --Shak.

Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.

A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges.

Blanket

Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]

1. To cover with a blanket.

I'll . . . blanket my loins. --Shak.

2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. --B. Jonson.

3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : blanket
Spanish: manta,
German: die Decke,
Japanese: 毛布
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blanket 
c.1300, from O.Fr. blanchet dim. of blanc "white" (see blank). The verb is first recorded 1605. Wet blanket (1830) is from the notion of a person who throws a damper on social situations like a wet blanket smothers a fire.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: blan·ket
Function: adjective
1 : covering or affecting all members of a group or class <blanket health coverage>
2 : covering or affecting all situations blanket release of liability>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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blanket

see security blanket; wet blanket.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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