different between blanket vs capote

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)

1. 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.

2. A layer of anything.

   The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

3. 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.

4. 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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.

   The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

3. (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.

4. (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
5. (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
6. Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Translations

Danish

Noun

blanket

1. form (document)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English blanket.

Noun

blanket

1. blanket

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Noun

capote (plural capotes)

1. A long coat or cloak with a hood.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 51, p. 86,^[1]

     […] pensive o’er his scatter’d flock,

     The little shepherd in his white capote

     Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,

   • 1967, Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb (translators), The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 359,^[2]

     It was said that the Rabbi of Kotsk had been in Favor of European dress, but the Rabbi of Gur and his followers had insisted on the Russian capote, trousers tucked into the boots, a kerchief around the neck, and the Russian cap adapted to the native style.

2. (historical) A coat made from a blanket, worn by 19th-century Canadian woodsmen.
   • 1888, Theodore Roosevelt, Frontier Types, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October 1888.

     The fourth member of our party round the camp-fire that night was a powerfully built trapper, partly French by blood,who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat, a greasy fur cap, and moccasins.

3. (historical) A close-fitting woman's bonnet.
   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 3, Chapter 2, page 308,^[3]

     Tied round her head with a large bow and flying blue ribbons under the chin, was a fragile flat capote like a baby’s bonnet, which allowed her hair to escape in front and her great chignon behind.

Synonyms

• cappo

Derived terms

• capoted

Anagrams

• PECOTA, Tecopa, acepot, toe cap, toecap

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.p?t/

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. greatcoat
2. (of a car) soft top
3. (slang) Ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”)

Derived terms

• capoter
• décapoter

Descendants

• ? English: capote
• ? Portuguese: capote

Verb

capote

1. first-person singular present indicative of capoter
2. third-person singular present indicative of capoter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of capoter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of capoter
5. second-person singular imperative of capoter

See also

• capot

Further reading

• “capote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• écopât

Italian

Etymology

capo- +?

Noun

capote f (invariable)

1. bonnet (British), hood (US) (of a car)
2. soft top

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

capote f (plural capotes)

1. condom

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French capote.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (figuratively) disguise
3. (slang) condom

Verb

capote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of capotar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of capotar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of capotar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of capotar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French capot. Doublet of capó.

Noun

capote m (plural capotes)

1. cloak
2. (bullfighting) cape worn by bullfighters

Derived terms

• echar un capote

Yola

Noun

capote

1. greatcoat

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN