Blanket vs Comfortable - What's the difference?
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A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
A layer of anything.
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
In general; covering or encompassing everything.
To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
* Shakespeare
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
* Ben Jonson
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
(lb) Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
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*:he was going to make away himself; but meeting by chance his master Plotinus, who, perceiving by his distracted looks all was not well, urged him to confess his grief; which when he had heard, he used such comfortable speeches, that he redeemed him e faucibus Erebi .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:a comfortable provision made for their subsistence
Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
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, title= Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
(lb) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable ; hold death a while at the arm's end.
(lb) Serviceable; helpful.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
As nouns the difference between blanket and comfortable
is that blanket is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting while comfortable is (us) a stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.As adjectives the difference between blanket and comfortable
is that blanket is in general; covering or encompassing everything while comfortable is (lb) comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.As a verb blanket
is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket.blanket
English
(wikipedia blanket)Noun
(en noun)- The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
- The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
- A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.
Derived terms
* blankie, blanky * security blanket * smallpox blanket * wet blanketAdjective
(-)- They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
- a blanket ban
Verb
(en verb)- I'll blanket my loins.
- A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
- I see the moon go off watch, and the darkness begin to blanket the river.
- The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
comfortable
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Adjective
(en-adj)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable . Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}