BLANKET

blanket, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, across-the-board, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide

(adjective) 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”

blanket, cover

(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; “he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep”

blanket

(noun) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

blanket, mantle

(noun) anything that covers; “there was a blanket of snow”

blanket

(verb) cover as if with a blanket; “snow blanketed the fields”

blanket

(verb) form a blanket-like cover (over)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

blanket (plural blankets)

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

A layer of anything.

A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Adjective

blanket (not comparable)

General; covering or encompassing everything.

Synonyms

• all-encompassing, exhaustive; see also comprehensive

Verb

blanket (third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing, simple past and past participle blanketed)

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.

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.

To nullify the impact of someone or something.

Source: Wiktionary

Blan"ket, n. Etym: [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

2. (Print.)

Definition: A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!" Shak. Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.

– A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour

Blan"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]

1. To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak.

2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. B. Jonson.

3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition