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Definition of Blanket

Blanket
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. 2. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. --Nares. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, ``Hold, hold!' --Shak. Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size. A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges.

Meaning of Blanket from wikipedia

- A blanket is a swath of soft cloth large enough either to cover or to enfold most of the user's body and thick enough to keep the body warm by trapping...
- Look up blanket, blanket insulation, blanket loan, blanket stitch, or wet blanket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blanket is a large, usually rectangular...
- Blanket training, also known as blanket time, is a method adapted from the methods encouraged in To Train Up a Child, published in 1994 and written by...
- mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. They are commonly known as blanket octopuses, in reference to the long, transparent webs that connect the...
- Blanketing is a term used predominantly in the US to refer to receiver blocking, which is interference caused when a strong unwanted off-channel radio...
- A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States...
- In statistics and machine learning, a Markov blanket of a random variable is a minimal set of variables that renders the variable conditionally independent...
- A space blanket (also known as a Mylar blanket, emergency blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket, weather blanket, heat sheet, foil...
- A blanket party (also known as "locksocking") is a form of corporal punishment, hazing or retaliation conducted within a peer group, most frequently within...
- The blanket primary is a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election, used in Argentina and historically in the United...