blanket

Noun · Verb · Adjective

Synonyms: cover mantle across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive broad encompassing extensive panoptic wide

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

bedding that keeps a person warm in bed“he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep”Synonyms: cover
anything that covers“there was a blanket of snow”Synonyms: mantle
a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

Verb (2)

cover as if with a blanket“snow blanketed the fields”
form a blanket-like cover (over)

Adjective (1)

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”Synonyms: across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive broad encompassing extensive panoptic wide

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Blanket \Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]

1.To cover with a blanket. [1913 Webster]

I'll . . . blanket my loins.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. [1913 Webster]

We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.— B. Jonson.[1913 Webster]

3.To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. [1913 Webster]

Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted. [1913 Webster]

Blanket \Blan"ket\, n. [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]

1.A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse. [1913 Webster]

2.(Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. [1913 Webster]

3.A streak or layer of blubber in whales. [1913 Webster]

Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. --Nares. [1913 Webster]

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!"— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.

A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges. [1913 Webster]