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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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