blanketing

[ blang-ki-ting ]
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noun
  1. blankets: The blanketing was too warm.

  2. Radio. the effect of a signal from a powerful transmitter that interferes with or prevents the reception of other signals.

Origin of blanketing

1
First recorded in 1570–80; blanket + -ing1

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How to use blanketing in a sentence

  • From Celine to Louis Vuitton, minimal new carry-alls are blanketing runways.

    Return of the Normal-Size Bag | Misty White Sidell | October 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • blanketing: A slang term, used when one vessel covers or becalms another with her sails.

  • Her voice penetrated the uproar of his mind, stilling troubled waters, blanketing other sounds.

    Shock Treatment | Stanley Mullen
  • When the chills intervene he wants blanketing, hot bottles at his feet, and hot tea, or something stronger.

    The Entailed Hat | George Alfred Townsend
  • But of that his squire could not be convinced, for the episode of the blanketing still remained a most vivid reality to him.

    The Story of Don Quixote | Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Batson Reeves was just blanketing his horse, for in his vigorous courtship forenoon calls figured regularly.