Crossword clues for blanketing
blanketing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blanketing \Blan"ket*ing\, n.
Cloth for blankets.
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The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of.
--Smollett.
Blanket \Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]
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To cover with a blanket.
I'll . . . blanket my loins.
--Shak. -
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
--B. Jonson. -
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.
Wiktionary
n. 1 cloth for making blankets 2 anything that covers like a blanket 3 The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. vb. (present participle of blanket English)
Wikipedia
Radio Blanketing Interference is a term used predominantly in the USA to refer to Receiver Blocking which is interference caused when a strong unwanted off-channel radio signal prevents the reception of another (wanted) transmission.
This problem is greatly reduced by even moderate-quality receivers, which have better selectivity (filtering) and dynamic range than poorly designed inexpensive or disposable ones.
Usage examples of "blanketing".
Its light reflected off the tall panes of thick glass before her, causing her coppery hair to shine incandescently, waves of red-gold illumination blanketing the frosty, barren peaks beyond.
More than one set of eyes was turned northwards towards the origins of the cruel wind and upwards towards the thick black clouds blanketing the sky.
Tree branches laced and intertwined high above us, while generations of leaves and needles lay deep beneath the uneven blanketing of snow that had filtered down to the forest floor.
The murderers spilled into the countryside where the disease had trickled but not entirely blanketing that parish with pandemic, just a smattering that somehow randomly slew different men.
Blanketing the walls were dog, horse, and family photos, certificates of court admission and awards Judy had received as law review editor and class salutatorian, and diplomas from Stanford University and Boalt Law School.
They closed in on the herd quietly, the squealing and uproar from the calves blanketing their approach until they were right in amongst the herd.
Sometimes a gentle uplift of moving air, oozing up the long slope from the Great Plains to the foot of the Rockies, can produce vast blanketing sheets of ground-level stratus fog that cover entire states.
They just gobbled up as much time as they could, blanketing the airwaves with their vague messages at whatever rate had been established.
Beyond it the heights lifted anew, a waterfall ashine like a drawn blade, a blue-shadowed whiteness blanketing peaks, the greenish gleam of a solid mass.
She cast through the haze of snow and blued night, picking out what the markers told her was the trail, despite the trackless blanketing of snow.
It was the easiest, most blanketing protection in the world to imagine that everything partook of the same animation.
And then, approaching the gridlock at Coldwater again via the drive-through lane of the Marcos Whiplash Clinic, I saw in the fluorescent blue haze blanketing the intersection a vision from Hell itself: out of the sea of traffic a red intake port began to surface, snout-like, lupine.
Around him the wind moaned against the tents, the drumming of the plastic adding to the medley, reenforcing rather than blanketing the catholic noise.
George lectured on heeling, luffing, running, blanketing, backwinding, heading up, trimming and pointing.
For the first time in years, she thought about that other grave, in Alamance County, where her tiny son lay buried, and she prayed that the quiet whiteness was blanketing him, too.