| 单词 | blanket |
| 释义 | blanket (once / 244 pages) 1nv 2adj A blanket is a large piece of material that keeps you warm when you're in bed or taking a nap on the couch. Many small children have a favorite blanket that provides not just warmth, but comfort. There is the knitted blanket on your bed, and then there's the blanket of snow that covers your yard in January. Any heavy layer can be described this way: "After a windy day, there was suddenly a blanket of leaves outside." You can use it as a verb, too: "The fog descended and began to blanket the whole town." The Old French root is blanchet, "light wool or flannel cloth," from blanc, "white" or "white cloth." WORD FAMILYblanket: blanketed, blanketing, blanketly, blankets USAGE EXAMPLESCervantes, wearing a Santa hat with a blanket draped over her, passed. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) In the back of the building, under hangers strewn with blouses, pants, wedding dresses and blankets, I talked with Amy and Mark about stains. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) The need for food is increasing along with non-food items, such as blankets. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n bedding that keeps a person warm in bed Syn|Hypo|Hyper cover afghan a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl electric blanketa blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat Mackinaw blanket, mackinawa thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States mantaa blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl security blanketa blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding coverings that are used on a bed 2n anything that covers there was a blanket of snow Syn|Hyper mantle cover, covering, natural covering a natural object that covers or envelops 3n a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor Hyper bed, layer single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance 4v cover as if with a blanket snow blanketed the fields Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered 5v form a blanket-like cover (over) 2Hyper cover, spread over form a cover over adj broad in scope or content blanket sanctions against human-rights violators Syn across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide comprehensive including all or everything |
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