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Blanket vs Blanker - What's the difference?

blanket | blanker |

As verbs the difference between blanket and blanker

is that blanket is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket while blanker is .

As a noun blanket

is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

As an adjective blanket

is in general; covering or encompassing everything.

blanket

English

(wikipedia blanket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A 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.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
  • A layer of anything.
    • The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * blankie, blanky * security blanket * smallpox blanket * wet blanket

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In general; covering or encompassing everything.
    • They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
    a blanket ban

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll blanket my loins.
    A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
  • To traverse or complete thoroughly.
    • The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
  • To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
  • To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

    • blanker

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (blank)
  • * 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
    • And lonely as it is, that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
  • * 1987 , Howard Bornstein, Under the Apple (page 221)
    • These screen blankers prevent phosphor burn on your screen, which is always a danger when you leave the screen on too long.
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