blanket
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
Noun 4 meanings
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
“The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.”
A covering layer of anything.
“The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.”
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
“A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.”
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Adjective 1 meaning
General; covering or encompassing everything.
Verb 4 meanings
To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
“A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.”
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
“The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.”
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.
Etymology
Inherited 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).
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BLANKET at a glance
BLANKET has 7 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (B 3 + L 1 + A 1 + N 1 + K 5 + E 1 + T 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,235 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with blanket
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- BLANKED14
- BLANKER13
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