| 单词 | blanket |
| 释义 | Word Frequency blanket(ˈblæŋkɪt) noun 1. a large piece of thick cloth for use as a bed covering, animal covering, etc, enabling a person or animal to retain natural body heat 2. a concealing cover or layer, as of smoke, leaves, or snow 3. a rubber or plastic sheet wrapped round a cylinder, used in offset printing to transfer the image from the plate, stone, or forme to the paper 4. physics a layer of a fertile substance placed round the core of a nuclear reactor as a reflector or absorber and often to breed new fissionable fuel 5. (modifier) applying to or covering a wide group or variety of people, conditions, situations, etc blanket insurance against loss, injury, and theft 6. born on the wrong side of the blanket verb (transitive) 7. to cover with or as if with a blanket; overlie 8. to cover a very wide area, as in a publicity campaign; give blanket coverage 9. (usually foll by out) to obscure or suppress the storm blanketed out the TV picture 10. nautical to prevent wind from reaching the sails of (another sailing vessel) by passing to windward of it Word origin C13: from Old French blancquete, from blanc; see blank |
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