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blanket   (TTS Sound)

The noun blanket has 3 senses

• blanket, cover -- (bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep")


• blanket, mantle -- (anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow")


• blanket -- (a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor)

The verb blanket has 2 senses

• blanket -- (cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields")


• blanket -- (form a blanket-like cover (over))

The adj blanket has 1 sense

• across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide -- (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")