| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Blanket.[Websters]
2. To be rugged or robed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have capped or headed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have cased or shrouded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be webbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have shelled or filmed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be layered, seamed, veneered or undercoated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be jacketed, skinned or crusted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have bedded or bunked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have coursed or rounded.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb blanket.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (blanket) | 1. Cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields".[Wordnet]. 2. Form a blanket-like cover (over).[Wordnet]. 3. To cover with a blanket.[Websters]. 4. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.[Websters]. 5. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: blanketing, blanketed, blankets, blanketer, blanketers, blanketingly and blanketedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Covered with (or as if with) a blanket.[Wordnet]
2. Being rugged or robed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being layered, seamed or undercoated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being canopied or cowled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being veiled or covert. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being comprehensive, encyclopedic or inclusive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being full, thorough or wholesale. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being overall, generic or global. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being overcast, overgrown or cloudy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being total, whole, entire, utter or aggregate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BLANKETED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: blanket
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | To blank out or obscure weak radio signals by a stronger signal. (references) | ||
| Antiquities | Blanket. See Babylonicum; Stragulum. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | Insulating material consisting of eel grass, glass silk, mineral wool, etc. , with paper lining on each face. Some quilts are backed with aluminum foil to reduce heat losses by radiation. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white, success where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided through unseen agencies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Finance | Something that pertains to more than one item, or more than one piece of property. In a blanket condemnation, a number of properties are sold through the power of eminent domain. A blanket insurance policy covers more than one property. A blanket mortgage is a lien on more than one parcel of land and is frequently used by developers and subdividers. (references) | ||
| Health | Marijuana cigarette. (references) | ||
| Industry | An endless belt of rubber or fabric which gives a soft, yielding, and uniform surface. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Blanket The wrong side of the blanket. A love-child is said to come of the wrong side of the blanket. 2: "He grew up to be a fine waule fallow, like mony ane that comes o' the wrang side o' the blanket."- Sir W. Scott: The AntÃÂquary, chap. xxiv. 3: A wet blanket. A discouragement, a marplot. A person is a wet blanket who discourages a proposed scheme. "Treated with a wet blanket," discouraged. "A wet blanket influence," etc. A wet blanket is used to smother fire, or to prevent one escaping from a fire from being burnt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Meteorology & Standards | A region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Mining | A. A textile material used in ore treatment plants for catching coarse free gold and some associated minerals; e.g., pyrite. The blanket is taken up periodically and washed in a tub to remove the gold concentrate, from which the gold is recovered by amalgamation. CF:tabular b. See:blanket deposit; blanket vein. c. Soil or broken rock left or placed over a blast to confine or direct throw of fragments d. A thin, widespread sedimentary body whose width-thickness ratio is greater than 1,000:1 and may be as great as 50,000:1. Syn:she e.g., pyrite. The blanket is taken up periodically and washed in a tub to remove the gold concentrate, from which the gold is recovered by amalgamation. CF:tabular b. See:blanket deposit; blanket vein. c. Soil or broken rock left or placed over a blast to confine or direct throw of fragments. (references) | ||
| Physics | 1: A region surrounding a fusion reactor core within which the fusion neutrons (if any) are slowed down, heat is transferred to a primary coolant, and tritium is bred from lithium (if tritium is used as fuel). In hybrid applications, fertile materials (U-238 or Th-232) are located in the blanket for conversion into fissile fuels. (references) | 2: In a fusion power plant using deuterium-tritium fuel, the system surrounding the plasma vessel used to slow down the neutrons produced, so that the heat released can be used for electricity generation. In many designs, the blanket is also used to synthesize tritium (from the neutrons and a lithium compound) to use as fuel. See breeder. (references) | |
| Public Administration | To -- a burning material. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Publishing & Graphic Arts | A rubber sheet in an offset press that receives the inked impression from the plate and transfers it to the surface being printed. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | To take the wind from another boat's sails. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A blanket is a type of bedding— a usually square- or rectangular-shaped piece of cloth generally intended to keep people warm, especially while they sleep. It can be distinguished from sheets by its thickness and its intention; the thickest sheet is still thinner than the lightest blanket, because blankets intend to warm people, while sheets are for hygiene, comfort and aesthetics. Blankets are subdivided into many types, including quilts, duvets, and comforters depending on their thickness, construction and/or fill material. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: blanket
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A wet blanket | Anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Beach Blanket Babylon | Beach Blanket Babylon is a long-running (30+ years) Cabaret show in San Francisco. The plot involves the adventures of Snow White as she searches the world for Prince Charming. Along the way she meets many San Francisco eccentrics and wears extremely large hats. Snow White is currently being played by Kimberly Jensen. (references) | ||
| Blanket flower | Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blanket fort | A blanket fort, or blanketfort, is a construction, generally made by children, using blankets, bed sheets, and sofa cushions. (references) | ||
| Blanket jam | Jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blanket octopus | The blanket octopus, three species of octopus in the Tremoctopus genus, are found in the waters of Australia's Northern Coast. (references) | ||
| Blanket sheet | A newspaper of folio size. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Blanket stitch | A strong reinforcing stitch for edges of blanket and other thick material; similar to buttonhole stitch. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blanket term | A blanket term is a word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. The degree of relation may vary. Blanket terms often trade specificity for ease-of-use; in other words, a blanket term by itself gives little detail about the things that it describes or the relationships between them, but is easy to say and remember. Blanket terms often originate as slang, and eventually become integrated into the general vocabulary. (references) | ||
| British NVC Community M20 (Eriophorum vaginatum raised and blanket mire) | NVC community M20 (Eriophorum vaginatum raised and blanket mire) is one of the mire communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. (references) | ||
| Electric blanket | A blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fire blanket | A fire blanket is a safety device, usually made available along with other fire safety equipment such as fire extinguishers, which can be used to help extinguishing accidental fires. They operate on the principle that smothering a fire starves it oxygen, and is commonly used to put out chip-pan fires, as well as bodily fires. (references) | ||
| Hoover blanket | Hoover blanket was a slang term for a newspaper during the Great Depression. It refers to that because of Hoover's failure to stop the depression, people turned out on the street had to use newspapers to keep warm. (references) | ||
| Horse blanket | Stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Horse blanket | A horse blanket is a blanket that's intended for keeping a horse warm or otherwise protected from the elements. They are tailored to fit around a horse's body with straps crossing underneath, allowing the horse to move about freely without dislodging it. They have a hole at the back to thread the tail through. (references) | ||
| Hudson's Bay point blanket | A Hudson's Bay point blanket was a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company in western Canada and the United States during the 18th and 19th century. The blankets were typically traded to First Nations/Native American peoples in exchange for beaver pelts. (references) | ||
| Indian blanket | Annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Mackinaw blanket | 1: Alt. of Mackinaw. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Markov blanket | In machine learning, the Markov blanket for a node A in a Bayesian network is the set of nodes \mathit{MB}(A) composed of A's parents, its children, and its children's parents. (references) | ||
| Saddle blanket | Stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Saddle blanket | A saddle blanket is the woven blanket, usually made of wool, which is folded and inserted under the Western Saddle in order to absorb sweat, cushion the saddle, and help it conform to the horse's back. (references) | ||
| Security blanket | 1: A blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Anything that an adult person uses to reduce anxiety. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Security blanket | A security blanket is any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner, such as the literal blankets often favored by small children. (references) | ||
| Wet blanket | Someone who spoils the pleasure of others. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: blanket
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Blanket (of a Dam) | Administration | A portion of the physical structure of a dam designed to affect the dams hydrologic characteristics, particularly its seepage and strength characteristics. Types of dam blankets include: [1] Drainage Blanket: A drainage layer placed directly over the dam’s foundation material; [2] Grout Blanket: The injection of grout to consolidate a layer of the foundation, resulting in greater impermeability and/or strength; and [3] Upstream Blanket: An impervious layer placed on the reservoir floor upstream of a dam; in the case of an Embankment Dam, the blanket may be connected to the impermeable element in the dam itself. (references) | |
| Blanket Bond | Shipping | A bond covering a group of persons, articles or properties. (references) | |
| Blanket certificate (authority) | Energy | Permission granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a certificate holder to engage in an activity (such as transportation service or sales) on a self implementing or prior notice basis, as appropriate, without case-by-case approval from FERC. (references) | |
| Blanket course | Building & Civil Engineering | A course intended to prevent the upward movement of clay or water through the pavement. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Blanket deposit | Mining | A. A horizontal, tabular orebody; manto; bedded vein b. A sedimentary deposit of great areal extent and relatively uniform thickness; esp. a blanket sand and associated limestones.See also:blanket; blanket vein. (references) | |
| Blanket feed | Mining | A method for charging batch designed to produce an even distribution ofbatch across the width of the furnace. (references) | |
| BLANKET HORNPIPE | Slang in 1811 | BLANKET HORNPIPE. The amorous congress. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Blanket mailing | Census | The mailing of letters, questionnaires, or other forms to all addresses and/or all post office boxes in an area. (references) | |
| Blanket Mires | Administration | See Peatland. (references) | |
| Blanket mortgage loan | Finance | A loan made to developers or contractors to purchase one or more tracts of land with the intention of dividing the land into smaller parcels for resale or development. (references) | |
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