blanket
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while…A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
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» Could you bring me a blanket?
Könntest du mir eine Decke bringen? — Wolf
Не могли бы Вы принести мне одеяло? — al_ex_an_der
Ты не мог бы принести мне одеяло? — odexed
Вы не могли бы принести мне одеяло? — marafon
Можеш принести мені ковдру? — aandrusiak
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Examples
438 sentencesCould you bring me a blanket?
Можеш принести мені ковдру? — aandrusiak
ruНе могли бы Вы принести мне одеяло? — al_ex_an_der
deKönntest du mir eine Decke bringen? — Wolf
I got a blanket and put it over Tom.
Я взял ковдру і накрив Тома. — Ahha
Why did your cats hide under the blanket?
Чому твої коти сховалися під ковдрою? — deniko
deWarum haben sich deine Katzen unter der Decke versteckt? — salutony
Meaning
4 sensesA heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke
одея́лоodejálo, покрыва́лоpokryválo
ко́вдраkóvdra, покрива́лоpokryválo, одія́лоodijálo
A covering layer of anything.
The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
Schicht, Lage
покрыва́лоpokryválo, покро́вpokróv, слойsloj
покрива́лоpokryválo
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- anything that covers
- a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
Origin
Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanketInherited 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”).
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Forms
plural: blanketsSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
58 related wordsCollocations
9 patterns- fold the blankets
- an extra blanket
- under the blanket
- another blanket
- extra blanket
- a blanket over
- with a blanket
- got a blanket
- some blankets
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.