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Blanket vs Specific - What's the difference?

blanket | specific |

As nouns the difference between blanket and specific

is that blanket is a heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting while specific is a distinguishing attribute or quality.

As adjectives the difference between blanket and specific

is that blanket is in general; covering or encompassing everything while specific is explicit or definite.

As a verb blanket

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

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.
  • specific

    English

    Alternative forms

    * specifick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • explicit or definite
  • (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
  • *2008 , (Richard Dawkins), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Oxford 2009, p. 3:
  • *:Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
  • (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
  • special, distinctive or unique
  • intended for, or applying to a particular thing
  • being a remedy for a particular disease
  • Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
  • * Coleridge
  • In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science.
  • (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
  • (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
  • (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
  • (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
  • Antonyms

    * all-purpose * broad * general * general-purpose * generic * gross * nonspecific * overall * pandemic * universal * unspecific * widespread

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * generic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  • Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
  • Specification
  • (in the plural) The details; particulars.
  • Derived terms

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