blanket

blanket
    adj 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" [syn:
           {across-the-board}, {all-embracing}, {all-encompassing},
           {all-inclusive}, {blanket(a)}, {broad}, {encompassing},
           {extensive}, {panoptic}, {wide}]
    n 1: bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the
         covers over his head and went to sleep" [syn: {blanket},
         {cover}]
    2: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn:
       {blanket}, {mantle}]
    3: a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a
       nuclear reactor
    v 1: cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"
    2: form a blanket-like cover (over)
    

Blanket \Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blanketed}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Blanketing}.]
   1. To cover with a blanket.
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            I'll . . . blanket my loins.          --Shak.
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   2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
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            We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. --B.
                                                  Jonson.
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   3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by
      sailing to windward of her.
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   {Blanket cattle}. See {Belted cattle}, under {Belted}.
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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.
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   2. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in
      the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
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   3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
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   Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters
         explains the following figure of Shakespeare. --Nares.
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               Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
               To cry, "Hold, hold!"              --Shak.
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   {Blanket sheet}, a newspaper of folio size.

   {A wet blanket}, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or
      discour?ges.
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Blanket, TX (town, FIPS 8596)
  Location: 31.82427 N, 98.78993 W
  Population (1990): 381 (177 housing units)
  Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 76432
    

Blanket, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
   Population (2000):    402
   Housing Units (2000): 189
   Land area (2000):     0.574704 sq. miles (1.488477 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.574704 sq. miles (1.488477 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            08596
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             31.826469 N, 98.788172 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     76432
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Blanket, TX
    Blanket
    

142 Moby Thesaurus words for "blanket":
      across-the-board, afghan, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive,
      apply to, becloud, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding,
      bedsheet, bedspread, befog, blind, block, buffalo robe, camouflage,
      canopy, cap, case, casual, cloak, clothe, clothes, cloud, coat,
      comfort, comforter, compendious, complete, comprehensive, conceal,
      contour sheet, cope, counterpane, cover, cover up, coverage,
      covering, coverlet, coverlid, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling,
      crown, curtain, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from,
      drape, drapery, eclipse, eiderdown, encyclopedic, ensconce,
      enshroud, envelop, film, fitted sheet, general, global, gloss over,
      guise, hanging, hide, hood, housing, imprudent, indiscreet,
      indiscriminate, indiscriminative, insensitive, keep under cover,
      lap robe, lay on, lay over, linen, mantle, mask, muffle,
      nonjudgmental, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, omnibus,
      over-all, overcast, overlay, overspread, pall, panoramic,
      patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, promiscuous, put on,
      quilt, robe, rug, screen, scum, shade, sheet, sheeting, shelter,
      shield, shroud, slip, slur over, spread, spread over, superimpose,
      superpose, sweeping, synoptic, tactless, total, uncritical,
      uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscreet,
      undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious,
      universal, unmeticulous, unparticular, unselective, unsubtle,
      untactful, varnish, veil, vestment, whitewash, whole, wholesale,
      without exception, without omission