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blanket
English
Etymology
From Middle English blanket, blonket, from Old Northern French blanket, blankete, blanquette (Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”). More at blank. Apparently cognate to blunket, plunket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blæ?k?t/
- Rhymes: -æ?k?t
Noun
blanket (plural blankets)
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
- A layer of anything.
- The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- 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.
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- comforter
- doona
- duvet
- quilt
Adjective
blanket (comparative more blanket, superlative most blanket)
- General; covering or encompassing everything.
Synonyms
- all-encompassing, exhaustive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
Translations
Verb
blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing, simple past and past participle blanketed)
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
- (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman
- We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
- 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman
- (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
Translations
Danish
Noun
blanket
- form (document)
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English blanket.
Noun
blanket
- blanket
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banket
English
Etymology
Dutch banket
Noun
banket (plural bankets)
- A sweet almond dessert pastry that originated in the Netherlands.
Synonyms
- banketstaaf
- letterbanket
Danish
Noun
banket n
- definite singular of bank
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch banket. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???k?t/
- Hyphenation: ban?ket
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
banket n (plural banketten, diminutive banketje n)
- A banquet, formal, festive meal.
- (countable, uncountable) A pastry made of almond paste and puff pastry.
- (collective, uncountable) Any of a variety of sweet pastries.
- (military) A banquette, narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet, elevated above its terreplein and used by defending infantry to shoot safely at attackers.
Derived terms
- banketbakker
- banketdeeg
- banketeren
- banketfabriek
- bankethuis
- banketletter
- banketspijs
- banketstaaf
- banketsuiker
- paleisbanket
- zeebanket
Descendants
- Afrikaans: banket
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- banka
Verb
banket
- inflection of banke:
- simple past
- past participle
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French banquette. Compare b?nak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nke?t/
- Hyphenation: ban?ket
Noun
bànk?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- A banquet.
Declension
References
- “banket” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
banket From the web:
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