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Blanket vs Blankest - What's the difference?

blanket | blankest |

As adjectives the difference between blanket and blankest

is that blanket is in general; covering or encompassing everything while blankest is superlative of blank.

As a noun blanket

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

As a verb blanket

is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

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.

    • blankest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (blank)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    blank

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
  • * Milton
    • To the blank moon / Her office they prescribed.
  • Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
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  • (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
    • a blank''' desert; a '''blank''' wall; '''blank unconsciousness
  • Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.
    • blank terror
  • Without expression.
    • Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
  • Utterly confounded or discomfited.
  • * Milton
    • Adam astonied stood, and blank .
  • Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
    • a blank day
  • Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration. (rfex)

    • Descendants

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
  • An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I cannot write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
  • * Hallam
    • From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
  • * George Eliot
    • I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank .
  • A space to be filled in on a form or template.
  • A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
  • * Palfrey
    • The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank .
  • A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
  • * Dryden
    • In Fortune's lottery lies / A heap of blanks , like this, for one small prize.
  • (archaic) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
    • (Nares)
  • (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
  • (dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
  • The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
  • The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye.
  • Aim; shot; range.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech.
  • (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, bullet that doesn't harm) blank cartridge, blank bullet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make void; to erase.
    • I blanked out my previous entry.
  • (slang) To ignore.
    • She blanked me for no reason.
  • To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
    • The team was blanked .
  • To become blank.

    • Usage notes

    * Almost any sense of this can occur with (out). See (blank out).

    Derived terms

    * blank canvas * blank check * blank end * blankly * blankness * blank out * blank verse ----