Blanket vs Film - What's the difference?
blanket | film | Synonyms |
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.
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
* Alexander Pope
(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
A motion picture.
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
* Shakespeare
To record a motion picture on photographic film
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
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As nouns the difference between blanket and film
is that blanket is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting while film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.As verbs the difference between blanket and film
is that blanket is to cover with, or as if with, a blanket while film is to record a motion picture on photographic film.As an adjective blanket
is in general; covering or encompassing everything.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.
film
English
(wikipedia film)Noun
(en noun)- a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
- Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .
Synonyms
* (motion picture) movieDerived terms
* filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on filmVerb
(en verb)- "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.