BLIND

blind

(adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; “blind to a lover’s faults”; “blind to the consequences of their actions”

blind, unreasoning

(adjective) not based on reason or evidence; “blind hatred”; “blind faith”; “unreasoning panic”

blind, unsighted

(adjective) unable to see; “a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision”--Kenneth Jernigan

blind, screen

(noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; “they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet”

blind

(noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); “he waited impatiently in the blind”

subterfuge, blind

(noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; “he wasn’t sick--it was just a subterfuge”; “the holding company was just a blind”

blind

(noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; “he spent hours reading to the blind”

blind, dim

(verb) make dim by comparison or conceal

blind

(verb) make blind by putting the eyes out; “The criminals were punished and blinded”

blind

(verb) render unable to see

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Blind (plural Blinds)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Blind is the 28552nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 835 individuals. Blind is most common among White (94.37%) individuals.

Etymology

Adjective

blind (comparative blinder, superlative blindest)

(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

Antonyms: seeing, sighted

(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.

(not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end

(not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.

smallest or slightest in phrases such as

(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.

(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

Unintelligible or illegible.

(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

Noun

blind (plural blinds)

A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

Any device intended to conceal or hide.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

(military) A blindage.

A halting place.

(rugby, colloquial) The blindside.

(poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

(poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

(as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.

Synonyms

• (destination sign): rollsign (mainly US)

Verb

blind (third-person singular simple present blinds, present participle blinding, simple past and past participle blinded)

(transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.

(slang, obsolete) To curse.

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Adverb

blind (comparative more blind, superlative most blind)

Without seeing; unseeingly.

(colloquial) Absolutely, totally.

(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

Source: Wiktionary


Blind, a. Etym: [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]

1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay.

4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

8. (Hort.)

Definition: Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.

– Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight.

– Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.

– Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.

– Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds.

– Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a.

– Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight.

– Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.

– Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.

– Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift.

– Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes.

– Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.

– Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.

– Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

Blind, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]

1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.

3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Blind, n.

1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

3. Etym: [Cf. F. blindes, pblende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.)

Definition: A blindage. See Blindage.

4. A halting place. [Obs.] Dryden.

Blind, Blinde, n.

Definition: See Blende.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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