blanket

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

blan·ket [blanket blankets blanketed blanketing] noun, adjective, verb BrE [ˈblæŋkɪt] NAmE [ˈblæŋkɪt]
noun
1. a large cover, often made of wool, used especially on beds to keep people warm
•It's cold tonight— can I have another blanket?
•The baby was wrapped in a blanket.
see also ↑electric blanket
2. usually singular ~ of sth a thick layer or covering of sth
•a blanket of fog/snow/cloud
• (figurative)The trial was conducted under a blanket of secrecy.
see also ↑wet blanket

Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•For her, money was like a security blanket.
•He takes his security blanket with him everywhere.
•I hate to be a wet blanket, but I thought the show was terrible.
•She pulled the blanket up and went to sleep.
•They shivered under their thin blankets.
•The blanket of fog began to disperse.
•The sun was breaking through the blanket of mist.
•The walls were covered in blankets of ivy.

 
adjective only before noun
including or affecting all possible cases, situations or people
•a blanket ban on tobacco advertising
•a blanket refusal

Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•What I object to most is the blanket opposition to change.

 
verb often passive ~ sth (formal)
to cover sth completely with a thick layer
•Snow soon blanketed the frozen ground.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•Deposits of ash blanket the lower slopes of the mountain.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mantle, cover