Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coarse woolen cloth of which blankets are made.
- noun A supply or quantity of blankets.
- noun The process of obtaining gold by collecting it as it comes from the stamps on a blanket or in a blanket-sluice.
- noun plural The gold so obtained.
- noun The operation of tossing in a blanket as a punishment or a joke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cloth for blankets.
- noun The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
blanket . - noun
cloth for makingblankets - noun anything that covers like a blanket
- noun The act or
punishment oftossing in a blanket.
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Examples
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This blanketing is known as the natural greenhouse effect.
Prevention of Global Warming: Understanding The Main Causes 2009
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How is it that a man dismissed as a buffoon in his own community came to be a household name blanketing the national media?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nadine Smith 2011
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How is it that a man dismissed as a buffoon in his own community came to be a household name blanketing the national media?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nadine Smith 2011
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An enhanced greenhouse effect is expected to cause cooling in higher parts of the atmosphere because the increased "blanketing" effect in the lower atmosphere holds in more heat, allowing less to reach the upper atmosphere.
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The only substantive form of interference that can be cause by an LPFM station is what is known as "blanketing" interference.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Still the great majority of the Members were only too anxious to be convinced, and passed by a huge majority the "blanketing" amendment of
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 Various 1898
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This, which we may term the original heat, is constantly flowing forth into space, but makes its way slowly, because of the non-conductive, or, as we may phrase it, the "blanketing" effect of the outer rock.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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But for being alone so many times last year and "blanketing" all these WR we played, he did more than exceptional, only thing he needs to do is work on his catching, other that that, this kid has a HoF attitude, and if he keeps this up, will be in the HoF.
Arrowhead Pride Joel Thorman 2010
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The commission's traffic counters are "blanketing" the area around the bridge now and will do so again once construction starts, Brady said, to measure how the bridge closure affects the amount of traffic along other bridges and roads in the area.
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"blanketing" effect considerably lessens the amount of heat radiated into space; thus, by keeping in the heat we have received, compensating to some extent for the original loss in quantity.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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