Definition of "blanket"

blanket

/ˈblæŋkɪt/

noun
plural blankets
1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
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  The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
  1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960,
2. A layer of anything.
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  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.
  1948 March and April, “Noes and News: Slab Blanketing at Clapham Junction”, in Railway Magazine, page 131
3. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
adjective
not comparable
1. General; covering or encompassing everything.
  Quotations
  Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.
  1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities
  Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach
  2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57
  Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.
  2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428
  By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.
  2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Learning and Cognition in Autism, page 187
  The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.
  2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207
  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.
  2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu‎
verb
third-person singular simple present blankets, present participle blanketing, simple past and past participle blanketed
1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
  Quotations
  I'll […] blanket my loins.
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii]
  I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]
2. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
3. (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
  Quotations
  We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
  1609 December (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
4. (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
5. (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
6. Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

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