Blanket

/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/ · noun

Meaning

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting..

Definitions by Sense

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
2. A covering layer of anything.
3. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
5. General; covering or encompassing everything.
6. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
7. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
8. (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

Example Sentences

The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.

The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.

There was no difficulty in sighting the semaphores from this timely warning to each one; but it would have been another matter if the driver had to peer continuously into that white blanket [fog] looking for them without any pre-warning.

A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.

Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach

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Antonyms for blanket

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Word Forms

• blankets
• blanketing
• blanketting
• blanketed
• blanketted

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