blanket

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
2. A covering layer of anything.
3. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Adj

General; covering or encompassing everything.

Verb

1. (attributive, transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
2. (attributive, transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
3. (attributive, transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
4. (attributive, transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
5. (attributive, transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
6. (attributive) Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

Conceptes

manta

flassada

general

ampli

cobertor

global

vànova

capa

cobrellit

complet

Sinònims

cover

quilt

coverlet

covering

robe

rug

carpet

mantle

shawl

cloak

cloth

shroud

woollen cloth

bedspread

bed covering

clothe

wide

wrapper

shell

🐚

smother

panoptic

jacket

broad

flag

felt

sheet

overlay

across-the-board

coat

🧥

all-encompassing

throw

encompassing

swag

veil

duvet

screen

cap

all-embracing

horsecloth

lid

hood

coverage

extensive

all-inclusive

muffle

spread

cope

conceal

block out

comprehensive

Traduccions

couverture

coperta

Decke

manta

deken

frazada

cobertor

coltre

cobija

κουβέρτα

Bettdecke

copriletto

mantello

drap

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈblæŋkɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: blanket

Cognat amb francès: blanchet

Cognat amb anglès antic: blanca

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: hvítill

In summary

From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).