Sekirov Dictionary

blanket

/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/

noun 4
verb 6
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 4

noun4

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a big warm cover made of heavy soft material that people put over themselves in bed
- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
•
A covering layer of anything.
- The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
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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.

verb[before a noun]6

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To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
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To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
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To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- 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. — 1600

adjective[before a noun]1

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General; covering or encompassing everything.
- Another observer offered a less blanket criticism. — 1994

forms

blanketed · blanketted · blanketing · blanketting · blankets

Phrases with blanket

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