Blanket (disambiguation)

A blanket is a large, usually rectangular piece of thick bedding material.

Blanket may also refer to:

Types of blanket

• Afghan blanket, a colored 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
• 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
• Smallpox blanket, an early biological warfare agent used against American Indians

See also

• Blankets (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "blanket"