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blanket
has definitions from the fields of physics,nuclear physics
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[ noun ] bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
Synonyms Examples "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)In California , a_few years ago , a ghoul by the name of H._F._Bell sold electric blankets as a cure for cancer . He did this by the charming practice of buying_up used electric blankets for $ 5 to $ 10 from survivors of patients who had died , reconditioning them , and selling them at $ 185 each . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Finding it true that he was not inside , the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket . Several slugs fired into the bed jerked aside the blanket to reveal an apparently lifeless hand . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)`` Have you got enough blankets '' ? Related terms bedclothes afghan mackinaw manta security_blanket electric_blanket |
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[ noun ] anything that covers
Synonyms Examples "there was a blanket of snow" Used in print (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)This effect can give_rise to a blanket of micrometeorites around the Earth . Zodiacal_light and the gegenschein give some evidence for such a dust blanket , a phenomenon also to be expected if the dust before capture is in circular orbits about the sun , as indicated by the trend of the smaller visible meteors . Of_course , if there is a dust blanket around the Earth , the fluxes in interplanetary_space should be less_than the figures given here . |
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[ verb ] cover as if with a blanket
Examples "snow blanketed the fields" Used in print (The New York Times,...)The Inter-american_Press_Association , which blankets the Western_Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape_Horn , is meeting in New_York_City this week for_the_first_time in eleven years . Related terms |
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[ verb ] form a blanket-like cover (over)
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[ adjective ] broad in scope or content
Examples "across-the-board pay increases" "an all-embracing definition" "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" "an invention with broad applications" "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner "wide powers" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] broad in scope or content
Examples "across-the-board pay increases" "an all-embracing definition" "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" "an invention with broad applications" "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner "granted him wid Related terms |
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[ noun ] (physics,nuclear physics) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
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