Blanket (disambiguation)
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A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material.
Blanket may also refer to:
Types of blanket
- Afghan blanket, a coloured wool knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes
- Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
- Electric blanket, an electrically heated bedding material
- Fire blanket, a device used to extinguish fires
- Hoover blanket (slang), newspaper used as a blanket by an impoverished person
- Saddle blanket or horse blanket, a protective covering for beasts of burden
- Security blanket, any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner
- Space blanket, a lightweight reflective material used to keep casualties warm
In business
- Blanket loan, a type of loan used to fund the purchase of more than one piece of real property
- Blanket order, a purchase order for multiple delivery dates, used when there is a recurring need for expendable goods
In entertainment
- Blanket (album) and Blanket (song) by Urban Species
- Blankets (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Craig Thompson
- Blankets (album), an accompaniment album to Thompson's novel by American indie rock band Tracker
In government and politics
- Blanketeers, a nickname given to the operatives involved in a public protest in 1817 England
- Blanket primary, the voting system employed in the United States
- Blanket protest, a Northern Irish prison protest held in the Maze prison by republican prisoners
Places
- Blanket Independent School District
- Blanket, Texas, United States
Plants and animals
- Blanket flower or Indian blanket, a short-lived annual plant native to the United States
- Blanket octopus, a species of octopus found in Northern Australia
Other uses
- "Blanket", nickname of Prince Michael II, Michael Jackson's third child, in the Jackson family
- Blanket bog, a bog lying over much of the countryside, formed in cool and very wet climates
- Blanket fort, a childhood construction of blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions
- Blanket (grape), another name for the French wine grape Clairette blanche
- Blanketing, interference caused by strong radio signals
- Blanket stitch, a sewing stitch, typically used to edge blankets
- Ejecta blanket, in geology, a layer of ejected material that surrounds an impact crater
- Markov blanket, a concept in machine learning
- Pigs in a blanket, a culinary dish in the United Kingdom and United States
- Printing blanket, a rubber matt used in the offset printing
- Smallpox blanket, an early biological warfare agent used against American Indians
See also
- Blankets (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing blanket
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