BLANKET


Meaning of BLANKET in English

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

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