different between blanket vs covering

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.

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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

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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.

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Danish

Noun

blanket

1. form (document)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English blanket.

Noun

blanket

1. blanket

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?v????/

Etymology 1

Present participle or participial adjective from cover (verb) +? -ing; or, from Middle English participle form of coveren, keveren (“to cover”).

Verb

covering

1. present participle of cover

Etymology 2

From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) +? -ing.

Noun

covering (countable and uncountable, plural coverings)

1. (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
2. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.

Derived terms

• face covering
• head covering

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