Comforter vs. Blanket — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Comforter and Blanket
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Definitions
Comforter
A comforter (in American English), also known as a doona in Australian English, or a continental quilt (or simply quilt) or duvet in British English, is a type of bedding made of two lengths of fabric or covering sewn together and filled with insulative materials for warmth, traditionally down or feathers, wool or cotton batting, silk, or polyester and other down alternative fibers. Like quilts, comforters are generally laid over a top bed sheet (and sometimes also blankets).
Blanket
A blanket is a piece of soft cloth large enough either to cover or to enfold a great portion of the user's body. It is usually used when a person goes to sleep or is otherwise at rest.
Comforter
One that comforts
The nurse as comforter of the sick.
Blanket
A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.
Comforter
Comforter(Christianity) The Holy Spirit.
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Blanket
A layer that covers or encloses
A thick blanket of snow.
Comforter
A quilted bedcover.
Blanket
Applying to or covering all conditions or instances
A blanket insurance policy.
Comforter
A narrow, long, typically woolen neck scarf.
Blanket
Applying to or covering all members of a class
Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators.
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Comforter
A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
Blanket
To cover with or as if with a blanket
Leaves that blanket the ground.
Comforter
(US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
Blanket
To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish
Blanketed the grease fire with sand.
Comforter
A woollen scarf for winter.
Blanket
To apply to generally and uniformly without exception
High telephone service charges that blanketed our region.
Comforter
A pacifier.
Blanket
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.
Comforter
One who administers comfort or consolation.
Let no comforter delight mine earBut such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
Blanket
A layer of anything.
The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.
Comforter
The Holy Spirit, - referring to his office of comforting believers.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.
Blanket
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.
Comforter
A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.
The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
Blanket
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Comforter
A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
Blanket
General; covering or encompassing everything.
Comforter
Commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
Blanket
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
Comforter
A person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies;
A reliever of anxiety
An allayer of fears
Blanket
(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
Comforter
Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
Blanket
(transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
Comforter
Device used for an infant to suck or bite on
Blanket
(transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
Blanket
(transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
Blanket
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
Blanket
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.
Blanket
A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
Blanket
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the darkTo cry, "Hold, hold!"
Blanket
To cover with a blanket.
I'll . . . blanket my loins.
Blanket
To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.
Blanket
To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
Blanket
Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed;
He pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep
Blanket
Anything that covers;
There was a blanket of snow
Blanket
A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
Blanket
Cover as if with a blanket;
Snow blanketed the fields
Blanket
Form a blanket-like cover (over)
Blanket
Broad in scope or content;
Across-the-board pay increases
An all-embracing definition
Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
An invention with broad applications
A panoptic study of Soviet nationality
Granted him wide powers
