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blanket English

Meaning blanket meaning

What does blanket mean?
Definitions in simple English

blanket Noun

— A piece of cloth with which a person covers themselves. The girl was covered with a blanket by her mother when she went to bed. — A layer of something The city is under a blanket of snow.

blanket Verb

— To cover something The lake was blanketed by fog.

blanket Adjective

— Covering everything The president proposed a blanket solution to stop crime.

blanket

— noun (= cover) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep — noun anything that covers there was a blanket of snow — verb cover as if with a blanket snow blanketed the fields — verb form a blanket-like cover (over) — noun a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor — adjective (= across-the-board, all-embracing, broad, panoptic, wide) 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

Synonyms blanket synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as blanket?

blanket English » English

cover quilt coverlet covering rug robe mantle carpet shawl cloth cloak shroud wrapper woollen cloth wide smother shell sheet panoptic overlay jacket flag felt clothe broad bedspread bed covering across-the-board veil throw swag spread screen muffle lid horsecloth hood extensive encompassing duvet coverage coat cap all-inclusive all-encompassing all-embracing wrap woollen shawl whiteout white out

Topics blanket topics

What do people use blanket to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Bed
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover
States Quantity

All
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
States Quality

Hot

Conjugation blanket conjugation

How do you conjugate blanket?

blanket · verb

Examples blanket examples

How do I use blanket in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Could you bring me a blanket?
I'm very sensitive to cold. May I have another blanket?
A blanket of silence fell over everyone when they heard the disappointing announcement.
Ken folded the blanket in half.
I always need an extra blanket in the wintertime.
She put the blanket over the child sleeping on the sofa.
Could you bring me a pillow and blanket, please?
Could I have a pillow and blanket?
Can I get a blanket?
I'd like one more blanket.
The mountain path was under a blanket of leaves, soft and easy to walk on.
This soft blanket is just right for babies.
Don't be a wet blanket.
Cover up the injured man with this blanket.
That man is a wet blanket.
She wrapped herself in a blanket.
May I have a pillow and a blanket, please?
May I have a blanket?

Movie subtitles

China remained a vast monochrome blanket.
Lyin' out there beneath a blanket of stars, with that old moon smiling' down on you.
Well, then, leave me a blanket.
They were carrying only a blanket.
They made me get them a rope and a blanket, on a night like this.
Well, was this a blanket warrant or any particular killing?
Put a wet sheet or a wet blanket over doors and windows.
Did you ever see a white man teach an Indian to walk up under a flag of truce and blast a soldier from a gun hidden under a blanket?
Get rid of that blanket.
I hope he's got an extra saddle blanket, sergeant.
Should-a Be, give me that blanket.
I don't want a blanket. I want sunshine.
Where's that horse blanket, Thomas?
How about this blanket, Mr. Foley?
But the part I like best is the night. Lying out there beneath a blanket of stars, with that old moon smiling down on you.
Well, then leave me a blanket! I'm frozen.
There won't be a dry blanket in the outfit. No, it's tough enough for a man.
Have you had any experience with a horse blanket?
You look under the blanket.
Hand me that blanket quickly.
The reason you're alive and walking around in that horse blanket isn't because I like you, see?
Fold that blanket like I showed you.
Like Sitting Bull in a new blanket, breathing through your nose while we both starve to death.
For a long time, I've been a part of you, just something to snuggle up to and keep you warm at night, like a blanket.
What do I go around in, a blanket like an Indian?
Yes, sir, but we fix her up with a blanket when she got off at Jacksonville.
A microscopic examination, everything about it, the lining, the blanket in which the body is wrapped, everything.
What a wet blanket you are, Legrand.
Grab a blanket from your bed.
Could you pull the other blanket over me?
There's a blanket in the rear locker.
What's that blanket doing next to mine?
Yeah, I guess one thin blanket isn't much out here.
Heads, I get your blanket, and tails, you get mine.
You're burning a hole in my blanket, Dad.
Forget that wet blanket.
I'll see that you get another blanket.
What, rolled up in a blanket like a squaw?
Hand me that blanket, please.
Sweaters, a blanket.

News and current affairs

To begin with, they enacted a general guarantee for the entire banking system to stem panic (providing blanket protection to all but the shareholders).
Deflation, on the other hand, increases debt, and feels like being smothered by a lead blanket.
But a blanket policy would be a mistake.
Israelis have become used to blanket accusations.
I believe that Obama knows that Hillary realizes that conflict emerges from these problems, and that using military intervention without addressing them is merely the equivalent of throwing a blanket into a volcano.
Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community - or, worse, it may stifle efforts to promote financial inclusion.
The blanket suspicion that was widely seen as falling on all Muslims after every terrorist attack was also strongly resented.
As everyone who has ever had an unpalatable job knows, shutting off the alarm and pulling the blanket over one's head is not a solution.
If you throw your blanket too wide, you cannot complain about nasty bedfellows.
Investors, who viewed Greenspan as a warm security blanket, now lavish him with fat six-figure speaking fees.
If an interrogator promises better food or an extra blanket, the guards must provide it; if an interrogator wants the detainee's cell to remain brightly lit all night, that must happen, too.
If they are expected to muddle through, a blanket debt write-down would weaken banks and might slow economic growth.
This might work, but the first wall of the blanket will need to be not only leak-proof and porous, but also sufficiently permeable to neutrons, which have to hit the lithium atoms beyond it.
Completing the recapitalization would remove the incentive to deleverage, at which point the blanket guarantee can be withdrawn.
Nor should national security be used as a blanket excuse for public authorities' interference with personal freedoms.
To his credit, British Prime Minister David Cameron clearly understands the importance of increasing the military pressure on ISIS; he had been held back by a head-under-the-blanket faction in his own Conservative Party and in Parliament as a whole.

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