blanketingn.

Brit.

/ˈblaŋkᵻtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈblæŋkədɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s blancatting (Scottish), 1500s blankatene (Scottish), 1500s blanqueting, 1500s blanquetting, 1600s blanckettinge, 1600s blankettin, 1600s– blanketing, 1600s– blanketting (now rare).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blanket n., blanket v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < blanket n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly (in later use) < blanket v. + -ing suffix¹.With sense 1 compare earlier blanket n. and adj. With sense 2 compare to toss in a blanket at toss v. 9a. With sense 4b compare slightly later blanket v. 4b. In sense 5 apparently after blanket adj. 4.

a. Material used for making blankets; similar thick material used for other garments; (also) blankets collectively. Also in plural: pieces of such material.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for blankets

blanket-cloth1520

blanketing1677

stroud1759

strouding1811

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > other

mockado1543

tuft mockado1579

mock-velvet1611

Mozambique1861

toile1899

blanketing1903

kente cloth1957

1568 in R. V. Agnew Corr. P. Waus (1887) I. 42 Ane wab of blankatene.

1649 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 17 For the weavinge & fullinge of 83 yards of Blanckettinge.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 25 No place yields Blanketing so notoriously white, as..Witney.

1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 42 A narrow Ring of thick Blanketting.

1789 Felix Farley's Bristol Jrnl. 14 Mar. Kerseys, German Serges, Naps, Beavers, Duffils, Flannels, Blanketings, and a variety of other articles.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 317 Clothing, blanketing, provisions..were destroyed in vast quantities.

1903 Daily Chron. 20 June 8/4 Wraps..made of fine cream blanketing with big sleeves brought into high cavalier cuffs.

2002 Jrnl. Museum Ethnogr. 14 2 What we have is a four-gore skirt..with an opening at the centre front, made of cotton blanketing—a coarsely woven cloth similar to flannelette.

b. A thick covering or layer of something. Chiefly with of.

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1832 Vermont Chron. 17 Feb. 28/4 The sap was all in its ‘winter quarters’, in the roots, under the blanketing of the muck.

1877 Ann. Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 1876 49 I do not believe..that..an annual plowing of an orchard at any age will damage it; provided, it is plowed..early enough in the season to insure a good blanketing of vegetation for winter protection.

1956 Times 17 Mar. 9/6 The searing frosts.., without a protective blanketing of snow, have killed many plants.

2009 R. Cox Work of Joe Webb 29 A yearly rainfall of nearly ninety inches insures a blanketing of cloud cover and cool humidity.

c. Mining. A piece of coarse woven material used in a blanket sluice (blanket sluice n.) to catch fine particles (of gold or gold-bearing ore or amalgam) in suspension; the process of using this. Also: (in plural) the material caught in this way. Now chiefly historical.

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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes

gadding1753

costeaning1778

refinement1815

rope boring1852

piping1869

chlorination1875

opencasting1886

resue1903

resuing1905

biomining1982

1866 Mining & Sci. Press (San Francisco) 24 Mar. 184/3 The fleece sunk in Pactoleon streams by the shepherds of the old world, and thus gradually becoming golden, is represented by the druggets and blanketings of the quartz mill of the present day.

1894 H. Louis Handbk. Gold Milling xi. 305 As a rule, the blanketings..contain a very large proportion..of worthless sand.

1945 Rep. Enq. Conditions of Labour Gold Mining Industry India 3 The stamp mill men lead the pulp over blanketing tables to the tube mill.

2014 J. Woodland Money Pits (2016) viii. 221 Treating the ‘blanketings’ with mercury in amalgamating barrels recovered their fine gold as an amalgam, which was separated from the sand on ‘shaking tables’.

d. A thick layer or strip of material such as fibreglass, used as thermal or acoustic insulation. Chiefly with modifying word specifying the material used. Cf. blanket insulation.

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the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > [noun] > insulation against > that which provides

insulation1927

insulator1927

insulant1971

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > transmission of heat > [noun] > failure to conduct > substance causing > material

planking1875

insulite1882

Micarta1912

loose-fill1950

insulation1969

1907 Internat. Marine Engin. Dec. 519/1 The use of asbestos blanketing was deprecated on account of its preventing leaky rivets or seams from being detected.

1928 C. S. Hill Winter Construction Methods xiii. 134 A five-span concrete arch bridge..was protected by insulated forms for spandrel walls and by blanketing for the overarch concrete.

1962 Pop. Mech. Jan. 242/2 Engineers found that a few pounds of sprayed-on asphalt deadener, jute padding, and fiberglass blanketing properly distributed around the inside of the body panels were quite effective in controlling rumble.

2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 22 May He said a quarter of household heat was lost through ceilings that didn't have insulation, and that 30cms of fibreglass blanketing would solve the problem.

2. The action or an act of throwing a person repeatedly in the air from a blanket held slackly at the corners or edges. Cf. blanket tossing n. Now rare.

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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket

canvassing1565

blanketing1577

blanket-tossing1881

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket

blanketing1577

blanket-tossing1881

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 847/2 Iesting, plaicing, blanqueting [printed banqueting], and..such other filthie and dishonorable exercises.

1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret ii. i. sig. E2 The worst that can come Is blanketting; for beating..I haue bene long acquainted with.

1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers i. i. 6 This Affair, Sir, may end in a Blanketing.

1808 J. P. Hurstone Piccadilly Ambulator II. 53 The chance of undergoing a blanketting.

2006 Compar. Lit. Stud. 43 420 Don Quixote will account for his many failures; for instance in the episode of..the blanketing of Sancho.

a. The action of covering something with a blanket; esp. the action of covering the back of an animal with a blanket or a similar thick material.

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1818 W. Carver Pract. Horse Farrier i. 28 The custom..in regard to the blanketing of horses, and driving them with the blankets on their bodies through rain and snow, must certainly be pernicious to the health of the animal.

1875 National Live-Stock Jrnl. Feb. 48/1 We have found the blanketing of work-cattle and steers intended for extra beef to be profitable.

1937 Chelmsford Chron. 22 Jan. 7/6 P.c. Pinch..demonstrated..the Home Office suggestions for keeping gas free one room in each house, in the event of a gas attack, including the blanketing of doors and windows.

2014 Proc. 48th Congr. Internat. Soc. Appl. Ethology 255 Blanketing of horses is a common management procedure.

b. The action or an act of covering or enveloping a person or thing as if with a blanket, or with a thick layer of something.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun]

heelinglOE

hillinga1300

coveringc1400

overdrawing1463

obduction1578

overlaying1611

shrouding1615

blanketing1896

1859 N. P. Willis Convalescent iii. 33 The sudden blanketings and un-blanketings of the hills—snows and thaws in wonderfully complete alternation—affect the Highland heath.

1925 Times 8 Apr. The sudden blanketing of the earth in fog.

1927 Aberdeen Jrnl. 13 Mar. 3/2 The blanketing of the flames by a quantity of close-packed grain.

2005 Financial Times 26 Nov. (Weekend section) 6/2 Thanks to the blanketing of the world with brands..the meaning of luxury began to change.

c. The process of applying a (typically inert) gas to the empty space in a storage tank or other container, in order to protect the contents from oxidation, contamination, combustion, etc.; an instance of this.

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1953 Stability of Shortenings in Cereal & Baked Products: Symp. (U.S. Quartermaster Food & Container Inst.) 29 (caption) Stop oxidation by..inert gas blanketing.

1970 Mineral Facts & Probl. (U.S. Bureau of Mines) 1106/2 Nitrogen gas blanketing is used by the chemical industry to prevent fires and explosions in many chemical processes, in petroleum refining, and in the manufacture of paint.

1997 Steel Industry & Environment (U.N. Environment Programme) vi. 97 A gas blanketing system involves the capping or enclosure of process vents, sumps, process vessels, storage tanks, piping systems etc which are open to the atmosphere and blanketing them with a positive pressure gas (such as nitrogen or coke oven gas).

2003 A. G. H. Lea & J. R. Piggott Fermented Beverage Production (ed. 2) v. 102/2 If gas blanketing is required during the later stages of processing, nitrogen or a 70% nitrogen 30% carbon dioxide mix is preferred [in still wines].

a. Sailing. Esp. in racing: an act or instance of blocking wind from the sail or sails of another craft by manoeuvring windward so that the other craft is sailing into the disturbed air created downwind; (also in extended use) the blocking of wind or airflow. Cf. blanket v. 4a.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > preventing access of wind

blanketing1883

1867 Bell's Life in London 10 Aug. 6/4 Gelert, who had now sails set all snug, easily passed through Diadem's lee, Pantomime soon after giving the latter a blanketing and taking fourth place.

1909 Rudder Aug. 303/2 The third incident was a foul between Peri II and Little Rhody I, Little Rhody just grazing Peri's main-sheet while tacking to avoid a blanketing.

1970 Financial Times 23 Jan. 19/3 Severe overheating of the engine..is caused by a blanketing of the air flow into the large inlets of the engines in conditions of high cross winds when the engines are under idling power—that is taxiing on the ground.

2014 L. Larsson et al. Princ. Yacht Design (ed. 4) vii. 161 The blanketing of the mainsail by the mizzen is taken into account in the mizzen coefficients.

b. The action or an act of suppressing, smothering, or stifling a person or thing; concealing or hiding as if by covering.

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1899 Morning Oregonian 5 July 4/5 The president's recent civil-service order had as one purpose the blanketing of those already existing war department abuses from the public gaze.

1965 Daily Mail 7 Apr. 12/1 Their bitterness was not so much over the end of the plane..but the blanketing of the announcement in the context of the budget.

2019 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 27 What we get is a blanketing of any argument that does not fit the ‘cosy consensus’ and an obliteration of the facts.

c. The action of obscuring or excluding a radio signal with a more powerful signal. Also with out.

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1929 Federal Radio Comm.: Hearings before Comm. Merchant Marine & Fisheries on H.R. 15430 (U.S. House of Representatives: 70th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 427 The blanketing of any station is that interfering with adjoining channels which occurs within the first 3 or 4 miles of the station.

1938 Nation 12 Mar. 301/1 The blanketing out of American broadcasts to South America by Berlin and Rome.

2001 G. Murray Invisible War 120 The blanketing of Japanese radio communications by Allied Special wireless units was made possible only by co-operative links formed among the Australian, British, Dutch, and American military services early in the Pacific war.

5. U.S. The action or an act of including or subsuming something within a category, classification, system, etc. Also with in.

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1912 E. R. Johnson Relation Panama Canal to Traffic & Rates Amer. Rail-roads 17 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (62nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 875) XXXIX Blanket or common rates are charged on west-bound transcontinental traffic... The blanketing of rates is less general upon east-bound than upon west-bound shipments.

1939 National Labor Relations Act 76th Congr., 1st Sess.: U.S. Senate Doc., Pt. 8 1442 The blanketing of labor under national and international unions makes necessary the bringing in of outside organizers.

2006 R. Blackburn Age Shock (2011) 89 The ‘pay-as-you-go’ system of pension finance was adopted because it enabled fairly good pensions to be paid out quite quickly, using the blanketing-in of notional contributions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	blanketing
释义	blanketingn. Brit. /ˈblaŋkᵻtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈblæŋkədɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s blancatting (Scottish), 1500s blankatene (Scottish), 1500s blanqueting, 1500s blanquetting, 1600s blanckettinge, 1600s blankettin, 1600s– blanketing, 1600s– blanketting (now rare). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blanket n., blanket v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < blanket n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly (in later use) < blanket v. + -ing suffix¹.With sense 1 compare earlier blanket n. and adj. With sense 2 compare to toss in a blanket at toss v. 9a. With sense 4b compare slightly later blanket v. 4b. In sense 5 apparently after blanket adj. 4. 1. a. Material used for making blankets; similar thick material used for other garments; (also) blankets collectively. Also in plural: pieces of such material. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for blankets blanket-cloth1520 blanketing1677 stroud1759 strouding1811 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > other mockado1543 tuft mockado1579 mock-velvet1611 Mozambique1861 toile1899 blanketing1903 kente cloth1957 1568 in R. V. Agnew Corr. P. Waus (1887) I. 42 Ane wab of blankatene. 1649 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 17 For the weavinge & fullinge of 83 yards of Blanckettinge. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 25 No place yields Blanketing so notoriously white, as..Witney. 1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 42 A narrow Ring of thick Blanketting. 1789 Felix Farley's Bristol Jrnl. 14 Mar. Kerseys, German Serges, Naps, Beavers, Duffils, Flannels, Blanketings, and a variety of other articles. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 317 Clothing, blanketing, provisions..were destroyed in vast quantities. 1903 Daily Chron. 20 June 8/4 Wraps..made of fine cream blanketing with big sleeves brought into high cavalier cuffs. 2002 Jrnl. Museum Ethnogr. 14 2 What we have is a four-gore skirt..with an opening at the centre front, made of cotton blanketing—a coarsely woven cloth similar to flannelette. b. A thick covering or layer of something. Chiefly with of. ΚΠ 1832 Vermont Chron. 17 Feb. 28/4 The sap was all in its ‘winter quarters’, in the roots, under the blanketing of the muck. 1877 Ann. Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 1876 49 I do not believe..that..an annual plowing of an orchard at any age will damage it; provided, it is plowed..early enough in the season to insure a good blanketing of vegetation for winter protection. 1956 Times 17 Mar. 9/6 The searing frosts.., without a protective blanketing of snow, have killed many plants. 2009 R. Cox Work of Joe Webb 29 A yearly rainfall of nearly ninety inches insures a blanketing of cloud cover and cool humidity. c. Mining. A piece of coarse woven material used in a blanket sluice (blanket sluice n.) to catch fine particles (of gold or gold-bearing ore or amalgam) in suspension; the process of using this. Also: (in plural) the material caught in this way. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes gadding1753 costeaning1778 refinement1815 rope boring1852 piping1869 chlorination1875 opencasting1886 resue1903 resuing1905 biomining1982 1866 Mining & Sci. Press (San Francisco) 24 Mar. 184/3 The fleece sunk in Pactoleon streams by the shepherds of the old world, and thus gradually becoming golden, is represented by the druggets and blanketings of the quartz mill of the present day. 1894 H. Louis Handbk. Gold Milling xi. 305 As a rule, the blanketings..contain a very large proportion..of worthless sand. 1945 Rep. Enq. Conditions of Labour Gold Mining Industry India 3 The stamp mill men lead the pulp over blanketing tables to the tube mill. 2014 J. Woodland Money Pits (2016) viii. 221 Treating the ‘blanketings’ with mercury in amalgamating barrels recovered their fine gold as an amalgam, which was separated from the sand on ‘shaking tables’. d. A thick layer or strip of material such as fibreglass, used as thermal or acoustic insulation. Chiefly with modifying word specifying the material used. Cf. blanket insulation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > [noun] > insulation against > that which provides insulation1927 insulator1927 insulant1971 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > transmission of heat > [noun] > failure to conduct > substance causing > material planking1875 insulite1882 Micarta1912 loose-fill1950 insulation1969 1907 Internat. Marine Engin. Dec. 519/1 The use of asbestos blanketing was deprecated on account of its preventing leaky rivets or seams from being detected. 1928 C. S. Hill Winter Construction Methods xiii. 134 A five-span concrete arch bridge..was protected by insulated forms for spandrel walls and by blanketing for the overarch concrete. 1962 Pop. Mech. Jan. 242/2 Engineers found that a few pounds of sprayed-on asphalt deadener, jute padding, and fiberglass blanketing properly distributed around the inside of the body panels were quite effective in controlling rumble. 2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 22 May He said a quarter of household heat was lost through ceilings that didn't have insulation, and that 30cms of fibreglass blanketing would solve the problem. 2. The action or an act of throwing a person repeatedly in the air from a blanket held slackly at the corners or edges. Cf. blanket tossing n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket canvassing1565 blanketing1577 blanket-tossing1881 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket blanketing1577 blanket-tossing1881 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 847/2 Iesting, plaicing, blanqueting [printed banqueting], and..such other filthie and dishonorable exercises. 1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret ii. i. sig. E2 The worst that can come Is blanketting; for beating..I haue bene long acquainted with. 1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers i. i. 6 This Affair, Sir, may end in a Blanketing. 1808 J. P. Hurstone Piccadilly Ambulator II. 53 The chance of undergoing a blanketting. 2006 Compar. Lit. Stud. 43 420 Don Quixote will account for his many failures; for instance in the episode of..the blanketing of Sancho. 3. a. The action of covering something with a blanket; esp. the action of covering the back of an animal with a blanket or a similar thick material. ΚΠ 1818 W. Carver Pract. Horse Farrier i. 28 The custom..in regard to the blanketing of horses, and driving them with the blankets on their bodies through rain and snow, must certainly be pernicious to the health of the animal. 1875 National Live-Stock Jrnl. Feb. 48/1 We have found the blanketing of work-cattle and steers intended for extra beef to be profitable. 1937 Chelmsford Chron. 22 Jan. 7/6 P.c. Pinch..demonstrated..the Home Office suggestions for keeping gas free one room in each house, in the event of a gas attack, including the blanketing of doors and windows. 2014 Proc. 48th Congr. Internat. Soc. Appl. Ethology 255 Blanketing of horses is a common management procedure. b. The action or an act of covering or enveloping a person or thing as if with a blanket, or with a thick layer of something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] heelinglOE hillinga1300 coveringc1400 overdrawing1463 obduction1578 overlaying1611 shrouding1615 blanketing1896 1859 N. P. Willis Convalescent iii. 33 The sudden blanketings and un-blanketings of the hills—snows and thaws in wonderfully complete alternation—affect the Highland heath. 1925 Times 8 Apr. The sudden blanketing of the earth in fog. 1927 Aberdeen Jrnl. 13 Mar. 3/2 The blanketing of the flames by a quantity of close-packed grain. 2005 Financial Times 26 Nov. (Weekend section) 6/2 Thanks to the blanketing of the world with brands..the meaning of luxury began to change. c. The process of applying a (typically inert) gas to the empty space in a storage tank or other container, in order to protect the contents from oxidation, contamination, combustion, etc.; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1953 Stability of Shortenings in Cereal & Baked Products: Symp. (U.S. Quartermaster Food & Container Inst.) 29 (caption) Stop oxidation by..inert gas blanketing. 1970 Mineral Facts & Probl. (U.S. Bureau of Mines) 1106/2 Nitrogen gas blanketing is used by the chemical industry to prevent fires and explosions in many chemical processes, in petroleum refining, and in the manufacture of paint. 1997 Steel Industry & Environment (U.N. Environment Programme) vi. 97 A gas blanketing system involves the capping or enclosure of process vents, sumps, process vessels, storage tanks, piping systems etc which are open to the atmosphere and blanketing them with a positive pressure gas (such as nitrogen or coke oven gas). 2003 A. G. H. Lea & J. R. Piggott Fermented Beverage Production (ed. 2) v. 102/2 If gas blanketing is required during the later stages of processing, nitrogen or a 70% nitrogen 30% carbon dioxide mix is preferred [in still wines]. 4. a. Sailing. Esp. in racing: an act or instance of blocking wind from the sail or sails of another craft by manoeuvring windward so that the other craft is sailing into the disturbed air created downwind; (also in extended use) the blocking of wind or airflow. Cf. blanket v. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > preventing access of wind blanketing1883 1867 Bell's Life in London 10 Aug. 6/4 Gelert, who had now sails set all snug, easily passed through Diadem's lee, Pantomime soon after giving the latter a blanketing and taking fourth place. 1909 Rudder Aug. 303/2 The third incident was a foul between Peri II and Little Rhody I, Little Rhody just grazing Peri's main-sheet while tacking to avoid a blanketing. 1970 Financial Times 23 Jan. 19/3 Severe overheating of the engine..is caused by a blanketing of the air flow into the large inlets of the engines in conditions of high cross winds when the engines are under idling power—that is taxiing on the ground. 2014 L. Larsson et al. Princ. Yacht Design (ed. 4) vii. 161 The blanketing of the mainsail by the mizzen is taken into account in the mizzen coefficients. b. The action or an act of suppressing, smothering, or stifling a person or thing; concealing or hiding as if by covering. ΚΠ 1899 Morning Oregonian 5 July 4/5 The president's recent civil-service order had as one purpose the blanketing of those already existing war department abuses from the public gaze. 1965 Daily Mail 7 Apr. 12/1 Their bitterness was not so much over the end of the plane..but the blanketing of the announcement in the context of the budget. 2019 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 27 What we get is a blanketing of any argument that does not fit the ‘cosy consensus’ and an obliteration of the facts. c. The action of obscuring or excluding a radio signal with a more powerful signal. Also with out. ΚΠ 1929 Federal Radio Comm.: Hearings before Comm. Merchant Marine & Fisheries on H.R. 15430 (U.S. House of Representatives: 70th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 427 The blanketing of any station is that interfering with adjoining channels which occurs within the first 3 or 4 miles of the station. 1938 Nation 12 Mar. 301/1 The blanketing out of American broadcasts to South America by Berlin and Rome. 2001 G. Murray Invisible War 120 The blanketing of Japanese radio communications by Allied Special wireless units was made possible only by co-operative links formed among the Australian, British, Dutch, and American military services early in the Pacific war. 5. U.S. The action or an act of including or subsuming something within a category, classification, system, etc. Also with in. ΚΠ 1912 E. R. Johnson Relation Panama Canal to Traffic & Rates Amer. Rail-roads 17 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (62nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 875) XXXIX Blanket or common rates are charged on west-bound transcontinental traffic... The blanketing of rates is less general upon east-bound than upon west-bound shipments. 1939 National Labor Relations Act 76th Congr., 1st Sess.: U.S. Senate Doc., Pt. 8 1442 The blanketing of labor under national and international unions makes necessary the bringing in of outside organizers. 2006 R. Blackburn Age Shock (2011) 89 The ‘pay-as-you-go’ system of pension finance was adopted because it enabled fairly good pensions to be paid out quite quickly, using the blanketing-in of notional contributions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). blanketingadj. /ˈblaŋkɪtɪŋ/ Etymology: < blanket v. + -ing suffix². That covers as with a blanket. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > with or as with specific cloth or textile palling1832 blanketing1904 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 244 The smoke descends densely upon the volcano in blanketing clouds. 1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth vi. 103 The blanketing effects of continental radioactivity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1568adj.1904
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blanketingn.

blanketingadj.