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Blanket   /blˈæŋkət/  /blˈæŋkɪt/   Listen
Blanket

noun
1.
Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed.  Synonym: cover.
2.
Anything that covers.  Synonym: mantle.
3.
A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor.
verb
(past & past part. blanketed; pres. part. blanketing)
1.
Cover as if with a blanket.
2.
Form a blanket-like cover (over).
adjective
1.
Broad in scope or content.  Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide.  "An all-embracing definition" , "Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" , "An invention with broad applications" , "A panoptic study of Soviet nationality" , "Granted him wide powers"



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"Blanket" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the term is but natural. It is a devotion that was practised in days of old by Saint Daruma[172]—(blessings on him!) you put your head under what is called the "abstraction blanket," and obtain salvation by forgetting all things past and to come—a most difficult ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... He's asleep. The bugs don't trouble him. But what are you going to do with that horse?" I then noticed that, to stifle all noise as he moved out of the shed, Antonio had carefully muffled the horse's feet in the rags of an old blanket. ...
— Carmen • Prosper Merimee
... the use of the needle; feet large, and of a coarser type than the hands. She had on when last seen a checked gingham dress, brown and white, and was supposed to have wrapped herself in a red and green blanket shawl, very old. Beside the above distinctive marks, she had upon her right hand wrist the scar of a large burn; also a pit or two of ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... gathering the cranberries in the Cedar Swamp, when I was suddenly seized, and something was thrust against my mouth, so that I had no time or power to cry out. My head was then wrapped up in some folds of blanket, by which I was almost suffocated, and I was then lifted up and borne away by two or three men. For a time I kept my senses, but at last the suffocation was so great, that my head swam, and I believe I fainted, for I do not recollect being put down; yet after a time I found ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... that from yonder lines in deepest gloom Th' ambiguous mule does of the stick[1] bewail, Whose dunder craft forbids him to consume His proper blanket, or ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)


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