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Definition of deken in Dutch English dictionary
- blanket
She wrapped herself in a blanket.
-Ze heeft zich in een deken gewikkeld.
During winter I sleep with two blankets.
-In de winter slaap ik onder twee dekens.
- 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.
- To traverse or complete thoroughly
The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
- In general; covering or encompassing everything
They sought to create a blanket solution for all situations.
- A cloth, usually large, used for warmth while sleeping or resting
The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
- {v} to cover with, or toss, a blanket
- On offset presses a fabric-reinforced sheet of rubber to transfer the impression from the plate onto the paper
- [in printing] a rubber surfaced fabric which is clamped around the cylinder of a press to which the image is transferred from the plate and from which it is transferred to the paper
- A layer of fertile nuclear material, such as uranium-238 or thorium-232, placed around the fuel core of a reactor During operation of the reactor, material in the blanket absorbs neutrons and decays, with products forming fissionable material
- emphasis You use blanket to describe something when you want to emphasize that it affects or refers to every person or thing in a group, without any exceptions. There's already a blanket ban on foreign unskilled labour in Japan. = comprehensive see also electric blanket, security blanket, wet blanket. to cover something with a thick layer be blanketed in/with sth
- To blank out or obscure weak radio signals by a stronger signal
- To cover with a blanket
- If something such as snow blankets an area, it covers it. More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan
- A blanket of something such as snow is a continuous layer of it which hides what is below or beyond it. The mud disappeared under a blanket of snow Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog
- In offset lithography, a flexible fabric clamped around the cylinder, which transfers the image from plate to paper
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse
- The part of the alpaca that would be covered if you threw a blanket on its back that hung down almost to its belly and covered it from shoulders to tail Prime fiber comes from the blanket area
- Single limit for all buildings and business personal property insured under a policy
- One requisition per order and many deliveries
- I'm any rat that covers another rat (or rats) Those rats are my "pillow "
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment