1. noun 1) шерстяное одеяло 2) попона, чепрак 3) тяжелое облако 4) густой туман 5) geol. нанос; поверхностный слой; отложение; покров born on the wrong side of the blanket - рожденный вне брака, незаконнорожденный to put a wet blanket on smb., to throw a wet blanket over smb. - охлаждать чей-л. пыл to play the wet blanket - расхолаживать 2. adj. 1) общий, полный, всеобъемлющий, всеохватывающий; без особых оговорок/указаний; огульный 2) - blanket sheet 3. v. 1) покрывать (одеялом) 2) obs. подбрасывать на одеяле 3) охватывать, включать в себя 4) заглушать (шум, радиопередачу - о мощной радиостанции) 5) забрасывать (бомбами); задымлять 6) naut. отнять ветер - blanket with BLANKET with покрывать что-л. полностью чем-л. The whole garden was blanketed with snow. BLANKET sheet amer. газетный лист большого формата ...
n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a large piece of woollen or other material used esp. as a bed-covering or to wrap up a person or an animal for warmth. 2 (usu. foll. by of) a thick mass or layer that covers something (blanket of fog; blanket of silence). 3 Printing a rubber surface transferring an impression from a plate to paper etc. in offset printing. --adj. covering all cases or classes; inclusive (blanket condemnation; blanket agreement). --v.tr. (blanketed, blanketing) 1 cover with or as if with a blanket (snow blanketed the land). 2 stifle; keep quiet (blanketed all discussion). 3 Naut. take wind from the sails of (another craft) by passing to windward. Phrases and idioms blanket bath a body wash given to a bedridden patient. blanket stitch a stitch used to neaten the edges of a blanket or other material. born on the wrong side of the blanket illegitimate. electric blanket an electrically-wired blanket used for heating a bed. wet blanket colloq. a gloomy person preventing the enjoyment of others. Etymology: ME f. OF blancquet, blanchet f. blanc white, BLANK ...
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English white woolen cloth, bed covering, from Anglo-French ~e, from blanc white — more at blank Date: 14th century 1. a. a large usually oblong piece of woven fabric used as a bed covering b. a similar piece of fabric used as a body covering (as for an animal) a horse ~ 2. something that resembles a ~ a ~ of fog a ~ of gloom 3. a rubber or plastic sheet on the cylinder in an offset press that transfers the image to the surface being printed • ~like adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1605 1. to cover with or as if with a ~ new grass ~s the slope 2. a. to cover so as to obscure, interrupt, suppress, or extinguish ~ a fire with foam b. to interrupt the smooth flow of wind to (as a downwind ship) c. to apply or cause to apply to uniformly despite wide separation or diversity among the elements included freight rates that ~ a region d. to cause to be included automatically ~ed into the insurance program III. adjective Date: 1886 1. covering all members of a group or class a ~ wage increase 2. effective or applicable in all instances ...
(blankets, blanketing, blanketed) 1. A blanket is a large square or rectangular piece of thick cloth, especially one which you put on a bed to keep you warm. N-COUNT 2. A blanket of something such as snow is a continuous layer of it which hides what is below or beyond it. The mud disappeared under a blanket of snow... Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog. N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n 3. If something such as snow blankets an area, it covers it. More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan... VERB: V n 4. You use blanket to describe something when you want to emphasize that it affects or refers to every person or thing in a group, without any exceptions. There’s already a blanket ban on foreign unskilled labour in Japan. = comprehensive ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]emphasis 5. see also electric blanket, security blanket, wet blanket ...
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~1 n 1 a cover for a bed, usually made of wool 2 a thick covering or area of something + of (The valley was covered with a blanket of mist.) (- see also wet blanket) ~2 v T usually passive to cover something with a thick layer + in/with (All the rooftops were blanketed in snow.) ~3 adj only before noun blanket statement/rule/ban etc a statement, rule etc that affects everyone or includes all possible cases (a blanket ban on the use of aerosols | We sent out a blanket mailing to every member of Congress.) ...