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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
blanket From the web:
- what blanket material is the warmest
- what blankets do hotels use
- what blankets are the warmest
- what blanket size is 50x60
- what blanket do the kardashians use
- what blankets keep you the warmest
- what blanket size is 60x80
- what blankets can you sublimate on
bedsheet
English
Alternative forms
- bed sheet
Etymology
From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed +? sheet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?d?i?t/
Noun
bedsheet (plural bedsheets)
- A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
Hypernyms
- sheet
Translations
Anagrams
- behested
bedsheet From the web:
- what bed sheets do hotels use
- what bed sheets are best
- what bed sheets are the coolest
- what bed sheets are made in the usa
- what bed sheets are the softest
- what bed sheets are best for night sweats
- what bed sheets are best for winter
- what bed sheets don't pill
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