I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blanket ban (= including all possible cases )
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They imposed a blanket ban on beef products from Europe.
a blanket of cloud (= a thick layer )
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In the morning, a blanket of cloud still covered the country.
a blanket of fog (= a large area of fog )
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A blanket of fog lay over the town.
a blanket/carpet of snow
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Within an hour, Bucharest was buried under a blanket of snow.
electric blanket (= one with electric wires in it, used for making a bed warm )
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an electric blanket
lambswool jumper/sweater/blanket etc
security blanket
snow covers/blankets sth
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The ground was covered with snow.
wet blanket
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket , she lay frowning in the darkness.
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It was his bed in Ilium, and the electric blanket was turned up high.
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It has a fan heater and an electric blanket on the single bed.
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Perhaps she was wondering if some one had remembered to switch the electric blanket on.
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There was no one in the apartment to turn on the electric blanket .
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Never use a hot water bottle and an electric blanket together, as this is extremely dangerous.
grey
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Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick, grey blanket of splintered frost.
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The fog sat like a heavy grey wool blanket about twenty metres thick.
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Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey , black-striped blanket , and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.
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Murrell, a grey blanket covering his head, was driven away in a green Rover to begin the motorway dash.
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Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket , sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank.
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There was a soldier behind a desk which was really only a trestle table with a grey blanket on it.
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The room was full of three-tier metal bunks made up with grey blankets and hung with clothes and towels.
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It was a deep narrow trail in the grey blanket .
heavy
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An old battle-axe of a nun wrapped them both in heavy blankets , forcing cups of mulled wine down their throats.
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A mild breeze was picking up, offsetting the heavy blanket of sunshine that settled on my arms.
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The sheets seemed as heavy as blankets and Flit was the only thing that prevented the mosquitoes descending on us like vultures.
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The fog sat like a heavy grey wool blanket about twenty metres thick.
thick
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Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick , grey blanket of splintered frost.
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The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
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Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark.
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The 20-minute ride to the dinner table is chilly; you hunker down, gripping a thick blanket and your companion.
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But the thick blanket over the wire cage hid him from view.
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Holford House now had a knobbly look, the immense chimneys standing inside roofless walls, covered in thick blankets of ivy.
warm
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The girls shiver in spite of the warm white cellular blankets that cover them.
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He snuggled down into the warm blankets .
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The chain had not been replaced, nor would it ever be, and warm , fresh blankets covered her.
wet
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The bullets thumped into the wet blanket in front of me, making it jump like there was a bear inside.
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The morose Mitchells wins the wet blanket award.
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But there was no large wet blanket to be had.
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Morose Michell wins the wet blanket award.
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They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket .
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Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
woollen
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She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
■ NOUN
ban
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The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.
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They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
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The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.
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His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
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One of the most urgent measures is a blanket ban on all animal and bone meal in animal feed.
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The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban .
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Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban .
rule
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The state bar would prefer to set a blanket rule governing all types of lawyers.
security
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A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket .
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The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
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Safeguarding the security blanket can be very important in coping with considerable upheaval.
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Tokyo was my security blanket , the only stability I had known.
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All these controls can be turned off, but they do form a comforting security blanket .
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The veil was her security blanket .
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A firewall provides more than real security-it often plays an important role as a security blanket for management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And we've no hot water bottles or extra blankets on board.
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He walked over and pulled the blanket off the body.
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It was a deep narrow trail in the grey blanket .
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They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories.
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Too many trucks have been stolen; clothes, blankets, medicines looted.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
snow
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Thick layers of snow blanket every horizontal surface.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first it came down almost lazily, in huge, silent flakes which soon blanketed the frozen ground.
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Billows of gray smoke blanketed the area.
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Later, looking back, I wondered if for a brief hour my malady had blanketed me from consciousness of the present.
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Outside the fog blanketed the tiny attic, a thick, grey blanket of splintered frost.
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They depend on people clicking on the advertising banners that now blanket most commercial sites.
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When the train stopped the air blanketed my shoulders.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A blanket requirement was announced by education officials -- all schools had to cut their budgets by 25%.
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Dementia is a blanket term for various types of psychiatric disorder.