英语词汇“blanket bath”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blanket /blangˈkit/

noun

A covering, usu of wool or a similar synthetic fabric, for a bed, or used as a garment by Native Americans, etc

A covering generally

Fertile material put round a nuclear reactor core to breed new fuel

A rubber or plastic sheet used in offset printing to transfer the image from the plate to the paper

Coverage

Something that conceals or obscures

transitive verb

To cover, obstruct, or extinguish with, or as if with, a blanket (lit and figurative)

To toss in a blanket

To cover (an area) totally, eg with publicity

adjective

Applying generally or covering all cases

Applied to Native Americans or black S Africans who retain the traditional tribal way of life

ORIGIN: OFr blankete, dimin of blanc white

blankˈeting noun

Cloth for blankets

Tossing in a blanket

blanket bath noun

The washing of a sick person in bed

blanket bog see blanket mire below.

blanket coverage noun

Advertising, etc that is directed at the public in general rather than a particular target audience

blanket finish noun

A very close finish to a race

blanket mire or blanket bog noun

A continuous area of peat bog over a wide extent

blanket spray noun

A spray of pesticide, etc covering everything in a given area

blanket stitch noun

A stitch used esp for the edges of a blanket

blankˈetweed noun

A rapidly spreading green filamentous alga that forms in ponds

on the wrong side of the blanket

Illegitimately

wet blanket