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Latest revision as of 10:58, 2 October 2012 [edit] English Wikipedia Wikipedia [edit] Pronunciation blanket (plural blankets) - A cloth, usually large, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
- A 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.
[edit] Derived terms [edit] Translations cloth | | | - Japanese: 毛布 (ja) (もうふ, mōfu)
- Javanese: kemul (jv)
- Korean: 이불 (ko) (ibul)
- Latin: lōdix (la) f.
- Latvian: sega (lv)
- Lithuanian: antklodė (lt)
- Malay: selimut (ms)
- Malayalam: പുതപ്പ് (puthappu)
- Navajo: beeldléí
- Norwegian: dyne (no) m. and f., teppe (no) n.
- Persian: پتو (fa) (patu)
- Polish: koc (pl) n.
- Portuguese: cobertor (pt) m., manta (pt) f.
- Romanian: pătură (ro) f., valtrap (ro)
- Russian: одеяло (ru) (odejálo) n., покрывало (ru) (pokryválo) n.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ћебе (sh) n., дека (sh) f.
- Roman: ćebe (sh) n., deka (sh) f.
- Sicilian: cutra (scn) f., cupetta (scn) f.
- Slovene: odeja (sl) f.
- Sotho: kobo (st)
- Spanish: manta (es) f. (Spain standard usage), cobija (es) f. (Central America, Colombia, Mexico, Southern Spain, Venezuela), colcha (es) f. (Cuba), frazada (es) f. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay), frisa (es) f. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico),
- Swahili: blanketi (sw)
- Swedish: täcke (sv), filt (sv)
- Taos: kínemą, pisóloną, pəolénemą (Hopi)
- Turkish: battaniye (tr), örtü (tr)
- Urdu: کمبل (ur) (kambal) m.
- Uzbek: adyol (uz)
- Vilamovian: köc m.
- Welsh: tapin (cy) f., blanced (cy) f., cylched (cy) m., gwrthban (cy) m., planced (cy) f.
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[edit] Adjective blanket (not comparable) - In general; covering or encompassing everything.
- They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
- a blanket ban
[edit] Translations 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.
- Shakespeare
- I'll […] blanket my loins.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- Ben Jonson
- We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
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[edit] Danish blanket - form (document)
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