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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blanket
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blanket ban (=including all possible cases)
▪ They imposed a blanket ban on beef products from Europe.
a blanket of cloud (=a thick layer)
▪ In the morning, a blanket of cloud still covered the country.
a blanket of fog (=a large area of fog)
▪ A blanket of fog lay over the town.
a blanket/carpet of snow
▪ Within an hour, Bucharest was buried under a blanket of snow.
electric blanket (=one with electric wires in it, used for making a bed warm)
▪ an electric blanket
lambswool jumper/sweater/blanket etc
security blanket
snow covers/blankets sth
▪ The ground was covered with snow.
wet blanket
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
▪ Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket, she lay frowning in the darkness.
▪ It was his bed in Ilium, and the electric blanket was turned up high.
▪ It has a fan heater and an electric blanket on the single bed.
▪ Perhaps she was wondering if some one had remembered to switch the electric blanket on.
▪ There was no one in the apartment to turn on the electric blanket.
▪ Never use a hot water bottle and an electric blanket together, as this is extremely dangerous.
grey
▪ Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick, grey blanket of splintered frost.
▪ The fog sat like a heavy grey wool blanket about twenty metres thick.
▪ Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.
▪ Murrell, a grey blanket covering his head, was driven away in a green Rover to begin the motorway dash.
▪ Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket, sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank.
▪ There was a soldier behind a desk which was really only a trestle table with a grey blanket on it.
▪ The room was full of three-tier metal bunks made up with grey blankets and hung with clothes and towels.
▪ It was a deep narrow trail in the grey blanket.
heavy
▪ An old battle-axe of a nun wrapped them both in heavy blankets, forcing cups of mulled wine down their throats.
▪ A mild breeze was picking up, offsetting the heavy blanket of sunshine that settled on my arms.
▪ The sheets seemed as heavy as blankets and Flit was the only thing that prevented the mosquitoes descending on us like vultures.
▪ The fog sat like a heavy grey wool blanket about twenty metres thick.
thick
▪ Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick, grey blanket of splintered frost.
▪ The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
▪ Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark.
▪ The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
▪ But the thick blanket over the wire cage hid him from view.
▪ Holford House now had a knobbly look, the immense chimneys standing inside roofless walls, covered in thick blankets of ivy.
warm
▪ The girls shiver in spite of the warm white cellular blankets that cover them.
▪ He snuggled down into the warm blankets.
▪ The chain had not been replaced, nor would it ever be, and warm, fresh blankets covered her.
wet
▪ The bullets thumped into the wet blanket in front of me, making it jump like there was a bear inside.
▪ The morose Mitchells wins the wet blanket award.
▪ But there was no large wet blanket to be had.
▪ Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award.
▪ They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket.
▪ Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
woollen
▪ She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
■ NOUN
ban
▪ The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.
▪ They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
▪ The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.
▪ His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
▪ One of the most urgent measures is a blanket ban on all animal and bone meal in animal feed.
▪ The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.
▪ Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban.
rule
▪ The state bar would prefer to set a blanket rule governing all types of lawyers.
security
▪ A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
▪ The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
▪ Safeguarding the security blanket can be very important in coping with considerable upheaval.
▪ Tokyo was my security blanket, the only stability I had known.
▪ All these controls can be turned off, but they do form a comforting security blanket.
▪ The veil was her security blanket.
▪ A firewall provides more than real security-it often plays an important role as a security blanket for management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we've no hot water bottles or extra blankets on board.
▪ He walked over and pulled the blanket off the body.
▪ It was a deep narrow trail in the grey blanket.
▪ They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories.
▪ Too many trucks have been stolen; clothes, blankets, medicines looted.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
snow
▪ Thick layers of snow blanket every horizontal surface.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first it came down almost lazily, in huge, silent flakes which soon blanketed the frozen ground.
▪ Billows of gray smoke blanketed the area.
▪ Later, looking back, I wondered if for a brief hour my malady had blanketed me from consciousness of the present.
▪ Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick, grey blanket of splintered frost.
▪ They depend on people clicking on the advertising banners that now blanket most commercial sites.
▪ When the train stopped the air blanketed my shoulders.
III.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A blanket requirement was announced by education officials -- all schools had to cut their budgets by 25%.
▪ Dementia is a blanket term for various types of psychiatric disorder.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blanket

Blanket \Blan"ket\, n. [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]

  1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

  2. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

  3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

    Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare.
    --Nares.

    Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, ``Hold, hold!''
    --Shak.

    Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.

    A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges.

Blanket

Blanket \Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]

  1. To cover with a blanket.

    I'll . . . blanket my loins.
    --Shak.

  2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

    We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
    --B. Jonson.

  3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

    Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blanket

c.1300, "bed-clothing; white woolen stuff," from Old French blanchet "light wool or flannel cloth; an article made of this material," diminutive of blanc "white" (see blank (adj.), which had a secondary sense of "a white cloth." Wet blanket (1830) is from the notion of a person who throws a damper on social situations like a wet blanket smothers a fire. In U.S. history, a blanket Indian (1859) was one using the traditional garment instead of wearing Western dress.\n\nOnly 26,000 blanket Indians are left in the United States.

["Atlantic Monthly," March 1906]

blanket

c.1600, "to cover with or as with a blanket;" also "to toss in a blanket" (as punishment), from blanket (n.). Related: Blanketed; blanketing.

Wiktionary
blanket

  1. In general; covering or encompassing everything. n. 1 A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting. 2 A 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. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket. 2 (context transitive English) To traverse or complete thoroughly. 3 To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. 4 To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

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WordNet
blanket

adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide]

blanket

  1. n. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" [syn: cover]

  2. anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: mantle]

  3. a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

blanket

  1. v. cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"

  2. form a blanket-like cover (over)

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Gazetteer
Blanket, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 402
Housing Units (2000): 189
Land area (2000): 0.574704 sq. miles (1.488477 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.574704 sq. miles (1.488477 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08596
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.826469 N, 98.788172 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76432
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Blanket, TX
Blanket
Wikipedia
Blanket (disambiguation)

A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material.

Blanket may also refer to:

Blanket

A blanket is a type of bedding, generally speaking, a large piece of woven cloth, intended to keep the user warm, especially while sleeping or lying down.

Blankets are distinguished from bed sheets by their thickness and purpose. Blankets are thicker; even the thinnest blanket is thicker than the heaviest sheet. Blankets are generally used for warmth and comfort, while sheets are for hygiene, comfort and aesthetics. Blankets were traditionally made of wool because of wool's warmth, breathability and natural fire-retardant properties, while sheets were made of cotton or linen or silk, which are less irritating to the skin. Nowadays, synthetic fibers are frequently used for both.

A blanket traps the radiant heat from the user's body, and instead of dissipating into the air, it warms the user. It also protects against cold carried by convection.

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Usage examples of "blanket".

He looked at Ace when his master rose and strapped on his Colt, which was still dry from being under the blanket.

Granny Aching had been wrapped in a woollen blanket, with a tuft of raw wool pinned to it.

After Lady Agatine and Tarise arranged a bedding of blankets, Veliaz lifted Sela in, then went back for Tamsa.

Catardi searched in a cubbyhole, where he found the blankets and covered Alameda with several, then put two on Schultz.

Burrowing back beneath the blankets, Alec closed his eyes again and waited for his heartbeat to slow.

Dubious but not wanting to appear ungrateful, Alec picked up a blanket and went to the pool.

Shivering, Alec went off a few feet and turned away before letting the blanket drop.

Cold with dread, Alec found the driver and helped him bundle Seregil, well wrapped in cloaks and blankets, into the carriage.

Drawing the blankets back over Seregil, he turned and surprised Alec with an almost friendly grin.

Grandmother had swathed Alise snugly in a blanket, folding it around her and tucking in the ends as a mother swaddles a newborn babe.

The Almoner greeted him in a kindly manner and gave him a beautiful round cheese and a warm blanket and asked what had happened to make his face so long and sad.

She did not stir even when he laid her on the angareb and covered her with the threadbare blanket.

OUT fully clothed on her bed under a fuzzy blanket stamped with a Hilton Hotel imprint, Arra muttered an incoherent protest and immediately went to sleep.

Then he opened his blanket and I perceived that fastened about him by a loop of hide in such a fashion that it could be drawn out in a moment, was the blade of a broad assegai, the shaft of which was shortened to about six inches.

I pulled back my blanket to sit up, and Asteria, startled, whirled around to face the sound.