blanketnoun/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/

• 1

  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.
  • The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
• 2

  A covering layer of anything.

  • The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
  • In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.
• 3

  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.
• 4

  A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

blanketadj/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/

• 1

  General; covering or encompassing everything.

  • Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
  • Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach

blanketverb/ˈblæŋ.kɪt/

• 1

  To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

  • A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  • […] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and perſecution of the skie, / […]
• 2

  To traverse or complete thoroughly.

  • The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
• 3

  To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

  • Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.
  • Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall.
• 4

  To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.

• 5

  To nullify the impact of (someone or something).

• 6

  Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.