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Definition: Blanket |
BlanketAdjective1. Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers". Noun1. Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep". 2. Anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow". 3. A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor. Verb1. Cover as if with a blanket; as of snow. 2. Form a blanket-like cover (over). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blanket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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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) |
Aerospace | To blank out or obscure weak radio signals by a stronger signal. (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) |
Chemical Industry | An endless belt of rubber or fabric which gives a soft, yielding, and uniform surface. 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) |
Literature | Blanket The wrong side of the blanket. A love-child is said to come of the wrong side of the blanket. "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 Antíquary, chap. xxiv. 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. |
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) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion. By extension, the term blanket may be used when the purpose is transformation of non-fertile material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | To -- a burning material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | To take the wind from another boat's sails. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blanket is a town located in Brown County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 402.Geography
Blanket is located at 31°49'35" North, 98°47'17" West (31.826469, -98.788172)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 402 people, 170 households, and 113 families residing in the town. The population density is 272.3/km² (699.5/mi²). There are 189 housing units at an average density of 128.0/km² (328.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 92.54% White, 1.00% African American, 1.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 3.73% from other races, and 1.74% from two or more races. 9.20% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 170 households out of which 31.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.1% are married couples living together, 10.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.5% are non-families. 31.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.36 and the average family size is 2.97. In the town the population is spread out with 28.4% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 103.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $34,375, and the median income for a family is $42,222. Males have a median income of $34,063 versus $16,667 for females. The per capita income for the town is $16,611. 17.8% of the population and 15.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.9% are under the age of 18 and 31.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blanket, Texas."
Synonyms: BlanketSynonyms: across-the-board (adj), all-embracing (adj), all-encompassing (adj), all-inclusive (adj), blanket(a) (adj), broad (adj), encompassing (adj), panoptic (adj), wide (adj), cover (n), mantle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Furnace; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding. (lining); clothing . |
Covering | Coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore. |
Dejection | Affliction; sorry sight; memento mori; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter. |
Disrespect | Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather. |
Dissuasion | Discouragement, damper, wet blanket; disillusionment, disenchantment. |
Dullness | Render dull; Adjective: damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear. |
Hindrance | Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck. |
Damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper; party crasher, interloper. | |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket. |
Moderation | Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin. |
Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative. | |
Weariness | Bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket; pill, stiff; heavy hours, "the enemy". |
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Screenplays | I will blanket the city in endless winter (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Anonimity is like a warm blanket. (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp) It's a blanket. Just a blanket (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Listen, stupe. The first week I was in this joint, somebody stole my Red Cross package, my blanket, and my left shoe (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) Actually, with rationed can-goods and a space blanket, you might make it. (As Told by Ginger; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis) | |
Lyrics | In a blanket made of stars (Cowboy Take Me Away; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Clever | This evening at 7 P.M., there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) The Navajo Blanket (1914) Beach Blanket Japano (1993) Part 2: A Blanket of Ice On Guard for Thee (1981) Beach Blanket Bango (1975) | |
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 | Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers. The blanket toss or "nelikatuk?" was a favorite game. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A group of volunteers, on site, place a hemp blanket and plant Willow and Red Oiser Dogwood on the banks of the restored areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | GOES image of North America. Weak band of rain on the eastern seaboard. Bright thunderstorm clouds extend along a frontal system from the Central Gulf Coast states through the Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes. Patchy rain clouds are over the Pacific Northwest whle spotty snow clouds blanket the northern Rocky Mountain states. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | A blanket of snow covers this central Maryland farm. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Early snows form a blanket over high Steens. View up Big Indian Gorge from Rooster Comb Area. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Hydrotherapy : View of patients in bathhouse in blanket packs. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Woman pointing gun at man laying blanket on beach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Military construction in northern Virginia: five men in three blanket boats strapped together. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indian squaws weaving a blanket / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. "Old Abe" - eagle of the Eighth Wisconsin volunteers / photographed by F.R. Curtiss. Pictures of the South - gathering moss on Berwick Bay, Louisiana / sketched by A.R. Waud. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shamrock I trying to blanket Columbia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Textures - blanket fringe" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "This was one of many photo's taken for a wine festival and craft show brochure." | "Blanket" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Blanket." |
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 | Beach; surfing; moondoggie; Gidget; daddy-o; Beach Blanket Bingo. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The mattress was a straw mat, the covering a large blanket of coarse grey wool, very warm and almost new. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Here, take this blanket. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Turkey | For example, some provincial governors, including the governor in Ankara, issued temporary blanket bans on street demonstrations following violent protests in April of the economic crisis. (references) |
Hungary | The Government requires that foreigners from countries that do not have a visa waiver agreement with Hungary obtain exit visas each time they leave the country, although blanket permission at times is available. (references) | |
Economic History | Cambodia | The U.S. also ended blanket opposition to lending to Cambodia by international financial institutions. (references) |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The PA informed Wahbah's family that he had committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell with a blanket. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | In 1999 the Attorney General issued guidelines that denied blanket immunity from prosecution for interrogators. (references) | |
Nigeria | Beds or mattresses were not provided to many inmates, forcing them to sleep on concrete floors, often without a blanket. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | Workers in essential services (military, police, energy, health-care, post services, and judiciary) are also subject to a blanket prohibition from striking. (references) |
KUWAIT | Current laws impose a blanket agency requirement for all foreign companies trading in Kuwait to either engage a Kuwaiti agent or establish a Kuwaiti company with majority Kuwaiti ownership and management. (references) | |
BULGARIA | Both labor unions challenged the legality of the definition of essential services and they have contacted the ILO to investigate the legality of blanket restrictions on the right to strike for workers in the health, transportation, and energy sectors. (references) | |
Trade | Israel | It is possible for exporters to apply for a blanket CO, or "Approved Exporter" status. (references) |
Chile | There is no blanket approval process for permitting identical products to enter Chile after they have been tested and found in compliance with local health regulations. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | In previous years, President Mugabe issued blanket bans on strikes in the country in both the public and private sectors; however, he did not issue any such bans during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blanket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.53% of the time. "Blanket" is used about 1,013 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.53% | 988 | 7,428 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.18% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.89% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,013 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Blanket, TX (town, FIPS 8596) |
Expressions using "blanket": A wet blanket ♦ blanket bath ♦ Blanket cattle ♦ Blanket clause ♦ blanket course ♦ blanket flower ♦ blanket insurance policy ♦ blanket insurange ♦ blanket mortgage ♦ blanket policy ♦ blanket sheet ♦ Blanket stitch ♦ born on the wrong side of the blanket ♦ cellular blanket ♦ cotton case to cover a blanket ♦ electric blanket ♦ foam blanket ♦ heating blanket ♦ horse blanket ♦ hypothermic blanket ♦ indian blanket ♦ jumping blanket ♦ knitted blanket ♦ lay a wet blanket on ♦ Mackinaw blanket ♦ saddle blanket ♦ security blanket ♦ smothering blanket ♦ toss in a blanket ♦ wet blanket ♦ woolen blanket. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blanket": blanket-bog, blanket-brewing, blanket-coat, blanket-covered, blanket-edge, blanket-forger, blanket-holder, blanket-protest, blanket-roll, blanket-wrapped. | |
Ending with "blanket": army-blanket, dog-in-a-blanket, horse-blanket, night-blanket, sludge-blanket, under-blanket, wet-blanket. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baby blanket | 1,465 | pig in a blanket | 86 |
blanket | 965 | saddle blanket | 79 |
receiving blanket | 810 | moving blanket | 77 |
electric blanket | 242 | pool solar blanket | 70 |
stadium blanket | 234 | crochet baby blanket | 68 |
beach blanket babylon | 231 | fire blanket | 66 |
fleece blanket | 212 | liquid solar blanket | 63 |
horse blanket | 209 | mexican blanket | 62 |
blanket throw | 181 | down blanket | 62 |
bear blanket | 176 | crochet pattern for baby blanket | 58 |
personalized baby blanket | 154 | beach blanket bingo | 57 |
solar blanket | 129 | blanket and bedding | 50 |
picnic blanket | 118 | fleece baby blanket | 50 |
pendleton blanket | 113 | blanket stitch | 50 |
indian blanket | 113 | welding blanket | 49 |
korean mink blanket | 107 | cotton blanket | 48 |
wool blanket | 105 | blanket flower | 47 |
blanket chest | 98 | security blanket | 47 |
mink blanket | 97 | pig in a blanket recipe | 46 |
beach blanket | 92 | korean blanket | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blanket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | deken, beddeken. (various references) | |
Albanian | batanije (wrap), batanija, shuaj (beat out, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shtrojë (bed, insole, seating), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck), mbulojë (mantle), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), mbulesë krevati (bedspread, coverlet, coverlid), kuvertë (bedspread, board, counterpane, deck, spread), i përgjithshëm (all out, appellative, common, ecumenical, general, generic, overall, public, sketchy, universal), i njëkohësishëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | غطى بالبطانية, حرام (ill gotten, wrap), شوش (bedevil, befuddle, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle), دجاج (chickens, fowl, poultry), دثار (garment, rug, stole, wrap, wrapper), بطانية (rug, wrap). (various references) | |
Asturian | manta. (various references) | |
Aymara | ahuayo. (various references) | |
Bemba | ubulangeti. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | si'káán. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чул (burlap, horse-cloth), общ (aggregate, broad, collective, common, communal, corporate, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide), одеяло (coverlet, rug), нанос (alluvion, alluvium, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, float, silt, warp, wash), засенчвам (adumbrate, dim, efface, obscure, outshine, out-top, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shade, show up, upstage), завивам (swing, tuck, turn, turn down, turn off, wrap), потулвам (clamp, conceal, hugger mugger, hush up, smother up, stifle, suppress, sweep under the carpet), покривка (cloak, cloth, clothing, coat, cover, covering, mantle, spread, tegument, tunic), повърхностен (airy, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty). (various references) | |
Cebuano | habol. (various references) | |
Chamorro | sábanas. (various references) | |
Chinese | 被 (by, quilt, to cover, to wear), 毛毯 , 毯子, 毯 (rug). (various references) | |
Cornish | len. (various references) | |
Czech | závoj (mist, veil, wimple), všeobecný (all around, all round, broad, common, general, sweeping, universal), pokrývka (counterpane, cover, coverlet, Pall, plaid, rug, spread), paušální (across the board, all in, fixed, flat, overall), přikrývka (cover), obecný (common, general, rife, universal), jednotný (integrated, undivided, uniform, uniformed, United), deka (cover, quilt). (various references) | |
Danish | tæppe (carpet). (various references) | |
Dutch | deken (dean), dek (cover, deck). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | catana. (various references) | |
Esperanto | litkovrilo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | teppi (carpet). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوشاندن (Apparel, Camouflage, Case, Clothe, Coat, Cover, Emboss, Envelop, Immerse, Jacket, Line, Mask, Overcast, Sheath, Sheathe, Shroud, Submerge, Suffuse, Veil), پتو (Wrap), جل , روکش (Casing, Coat, Plate, Slip, Veneer), باپتوویاجل پوشاندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | varastaa tuuli, vaippa (cape, casing, cloak, cover, diaper, gown, mantle, napkin), sänkyhuopa, peittää tuuli, peite (be covered, cloak, coat, cover, downie, quilt eiderdown), pakkia, mänkipeitto, loimi (warp), levyvaippa, huopa (felt, rug). (various references) | |
French | couverture (black grave yard soil), nappe, déventer. (various references) | |
Frisian | tekken. (various references) | |
German | Decke (ceiling, cloth, cover, covering, hood, layer, lid, manta, outer tire, paving, quilt, robe, rug, spread), Bettdecke (bedcover, bedspread, coverlet), zudecken (cover, cover over, cover up, to cover up, tuck up), umfassend (broad, capacious, complete, comprehensive, comprising, enfolding, explicitly, extended, extensive, full, global, omnibus, sweeping, thorough, wholesale, wide), pauschal (across board, across the board, estimated, flat rate, global, inclusive). (various references) | |
Greek | κλινοσκέπασμα (coverlet), κουβέρτα (coverlet), σκεπάζω (cloak, clothe, contend over, cover, cover over, curtain, mantle, muffle, screen, shroud, top). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | batanija. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לכסות בשמיכה, שמיכה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | takaró (coat, cover, envelope, mantle, overburden, Pall, rug, spread), pokróc (rug). (various references) | |
Indonesian | selimut, menyelimuti. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | qipik. (various references) | |
Irish | blaincéad. (various references) | |
Italian | coperta (cloth, cover, deck, hood, lid, rug), mantello (cape, capote, casing, cloak, coat, mantle, wrap), coltre (Pall). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube), 毛布 , 毛布 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブランケット , もうふ. (various references) | |
Kongo | vunga. (various references) | |
Korean | 담요. (various references) | |
Macedonian | kebe. (various references) | |
Malay | selimut. (various references) | |
Manx | lidjag, coodaghey (coat, cover, envelop, overlay, roof, shield, veil). (various references) | |
Maori | paraikete. (various references) | |
Maya | teep. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ahsire. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ullteppe, teppe (carpet). (various references) | |
Papago | pilsa. (various references) | |
Papiamen | deklo, dekel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anketblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cobertor (cover, coverlet, heating blanket, wrap), manta (Atlantic manta, batt, batting, bedspread, hat-form, mattress, web). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | cobertor. (various references) | |
Provencal | flaçada. (various references) | |
Romanian | valtrap, plapumã (counterpane, coverlet, puff, quilt), pãturã (bed, counterpane, cover, lap, lick, section of the people, stratum, wrap), masca (conceal, disguise, dissimulate, hide, mask, Masquerade, veil), cuverturã (counterpane, coverlet, coverture, rug), cioltar (caparison, shabrack), acoperi cu o pãturã, înveli cu o pãturã, înãbuşi (bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references) | |
Romany | odeàlos. (various references) | |
Ruanda | uburengeti. (various references) | |
Russian | шерстяное одеяло, кирза, отложения (scurf), общий (collective, common, conjoint, corporate, general, generic, genl general, global, joint, mutual, overall, sharable, shareable), одеяло;покров комплексный, одеяло (coverlet, wrap), нанос (alluvion, alluvium, bank), покрывать одеялом, покров (cloak, cloud, coat, cover, covering, garment, integument, mantle, nappe, overcast, shadow, shroud, vesture), поверхностный слой, плоская рудная жила. (various references) | |
Samoan | palanikeke. (various references) | |
Scottish | plaide (a blanket). (various references) | |
Sepedi | kobo (cloak). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prekrivač (bedspread, counterpane, cover), pokrivač (carpet, cover, covering, integument, mantle, pall, plaid, rug, spread, vesture), pokriti ćebetom, ćebe. (various references) | |
Shona | gumbeze. (various references) | |
Spanish | manta (devilfish, rug, shawl), capa (band, beach mat, bed, Capa, cape, cloak, coat, coating, domesticity, dust-cloak, fees, film, layer, leafage, manta, Pall, ply, sheet, shell, sill, slick, varnish, wash). (various references) | |
Swahili | blanketi. (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-gubo. (various references) | |
Swedish | filt (felt, plaid, rug, wrap). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kúmot. (various references) | |
Turkish | battaniyeye sarmak, battaniye ile zıplatmak, battaniye ile örtmek, battaniye (rug, wrap), battaníye, susturmak (Burke, confute, cut short, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, shut up, silence, squelch, still, Stow, wither), kapsamlı (across the board, comprehensive, exhaustive, generic, universal, well-rounded, wide), kapsamak (be inclusive of, compass, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), geniş kapsamlı (across the board, all inclusive, comprehensive, far reaching, far-going, in depth, omnibus, sweeping, universal), genel (across the board, broad, collective, common, exoteric, general, generic, grand, liberal, overhead, plenary, prevailing, prevalent, running, sweeping, widespread), engel olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, scotch, shackle, thwart), örtmek (canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), örtbas etmek (cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash), örtü (canopy, caparison, cloak, cloth, coat, cope, cover, covering, envelope, garment, hood, layout, mantle, nappe, overlay, secundine, shroud, spread, throw, veil, wrap, wrapper). (various references) | |
Turkmen | odeяal (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укривати ковдрою, шерстяна ковдра, охоплювати (comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap), напівцивілізований, захисний шар (carpet), загальний (aggregate, all out, appellative, collective, common, general, generic, generical, global, net, nominal, overall, pandemic, universal), попона (body-cloth, caparison, horse-cloth, saddlecloth, trapper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bao trùm (omnibus, omnibuses), mền, làm cụt hứng, chăn lớp phủ để hoang làm giảm hào hứng, có tính chất phổ biến. (various references) | |
Welsh | brycan (rug), blanced, planced, gwrthban, cylched (coverlet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tug-gu-lal. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cilicia, ciliciis, cilicio, cilicium, opertorium, veste, vestem, vestes, vestesque, vestibus, vestis, vestium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blanket": blanketed, blanketflower, blanketflowers, blanketing, blanketlike, blankets. (additional references) | |
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"Blanket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banketje, bankment, Bilancetta, blacket, blaket, Blanchet, Blanka, Blanke, blankies, blankish, Blankney, Blasket, Brancati. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blanket" (pronounced bla"ngkut) |
| 4 | -ng k u t | junket, trinket. |
| 3 | -k u t | aftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anklet. | |
-2 letters: ankle, blank, blate, bleak, bleat, blent, knelt, laten, latke, leant, table, taken. | |
-3 letters: abet, able, ante, bake, bale, balk, bane, bank, bate, beak, bean, beat, belt, bent, beta, blae, blat, blet, elan, etna, kale, | |
