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Blanket vs Covering - What's the difference?

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Blanket is a related term of covering.


As nouns the difference between blanket and covering

is that blanket is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting while covering is (countable) that which covers something.

As verbs the difference between blanket and covering

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

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.

    • covering

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) That which covers something.
  • (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover .

    • Verb

    (head)