transcription, транскрипция: [ blæŋkɪt ]
( blankets, blanketing, blanketed)
1.
A blanket is a large square or rectangular piece of thick cloth, especially one which you put on a bed to keep you warm.
N-COUNT
2.
A blanket of something such as snow is a continuous layer of it which hides what is below or beyond it.
The mud disappeared under a blanket of snow...
Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog.
N-COUNT : usu sing , N of n
3.
If something such as snow blankets an area, it covers it.
More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan...
VERB : V n
4.
You use blanket to describe something when you want to emphasize that it affects or refers to every person or thing in a group, without any exceptions.
There’s already a blanket ban on foreign unskilled labour in Japan.
= comprehensive
ADJ : usu ADJ n [ emphasis ]
5.
see also electric blanket , security blanket , wet blanket