Definition of BLANKET

blanket

Meanings

Plural: blankets

Noun

  • bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
  • anything that covers
    • "there was a blanket of snow"
  • a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
  • A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
  • A covering layer of anything.
  • A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
  • A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Verb

  • cover as if with a blanket
    • "snow blanketed the fields"
  • form a blanket-like cover (over)
  • To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
  • To traverse or complete thoroughly.
  • To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
  • To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
  • To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
  • Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Adjective Satellite

  • broad in scope or content; ; ; ; ; - T.G.Winner
    • "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"

Adj

  • General; covering or encompassing everything.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).

Synonyms

across-the-board, all around, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, comprehensive, cover, encompassing, exhaustive, extensive, mantle, overall, panoptic, sweeping, thorough, wide

Scrabble Score: 13

blanket is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
blanket is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blanket is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

blanket is a valid Words With Friends word