Blanket

[Blan·ket]

A blanket is a large piece of material that keeps you warm when you're in bed or taking a nap on the couch. Many small children have a favorite blanket that provides not just warmth, but comfort.

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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.

Noun
bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"

Noun
a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

Noun
anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"

Verb
cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"

Verb
form a blanket-like cover (over)

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a.
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.

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

a.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

v. t.
To cover with a blanket.

v. t.
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

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

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. &hand; 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!"
Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size. -- A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discourges.

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.
2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
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.

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.

To cover with a blanket.

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Usage Examples

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

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Other Usage Examples

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.