Blind
[blaɪnd]
Definition
(noun.) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; 'they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet'.
(noun.) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); 'he waited impatiently in the blind'.
(noun.) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; 'he spent hours reading to the blind'.
(verb.) make dim by comparison or conceal.
(verb.) make blind by putting the eyes out; 'The criminals were punished and blinded'.
(verb.) render unable to see.
(adj.) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; 'blind to a lover's faults'; 'blind to the consequences of their actions' .
(adj.) not based on reason or evidence; 'blind hatred'; 'blind faith'; 'unreasoning panic' .
(adj.) 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 .
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
(a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
(n.) A halting place.
(n.) Alt. of Blinde
Checker: Sandra
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sightless, eyeless, unseeing, stone-blind, stark-blind, unable to see.[2]. Ignorant, undiscerning, unaware, unmindful, inattentive, heedless, incapable of judging.
v. a. [1]. Make blind, deprive of sight.[2]. Hoodwink, blindfold.
n. Screen, cover.
Typed by Erica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, depraved, undiscerning, ignorant, prejudiced,uninformed, unconscious, unaware
ANT:Farsighted, penetrating, sensitive, keen, discriminating, clearsighted,pure-minded, aware, conscious
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Definition
adj. without sight: dark: ignorant or undiscerning: without an opening.—n. something to mislead: a window-screen: a shade.—v.t. to make blind; to darken obscure or deceive; to dazzle.—pa.p. blīnd′ed; pr.p. blīnd′ing.—ns. Blind′age (mil.) a temporary wooden screen faced with earth as a protection against splinters of shell and the like; Blind′-coal non-bituminous coal.—adj. Blind′ed deprived of sight: without intellectual discernment.—n. Blind′er one who or that which blinds; (pl.) a horse's blinkers.—adj. Blind′fold having the eyes bandaged so as not to see: thoughtless: reckless.—v.t. to cover the eyes: to mislead.—adj. Blind′ing tending to make blind.—pr.p. making blind.—adv. Blind′ly.—ns. Blind′ness want of sight ignorance folly; Blind′-side the side on which a person is blind to danger: weak point; Blind′worm a small reptile like a snake having eyes so small as to be supposed blind.—Blind-man's buff a game in which one of the party is blindfolded and tries to catch the others.
Typed by Ellie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence to almost abject poverty. To see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call on you for aid.
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- I suppose it's smarter to use these rocks and build a good blind for this gun than to make a proper emplacement for it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a good blind, eh? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He is now helpless, indeed--blind and a cripple. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Because I saw it only looking out from under the blinds of a window in the house which stood on the corner where the arc light was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The blinds were all drawn down, and the inscription Pubsey and Co. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Holmes stepped up to the window, closed it, and dropped the blinds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But he suffered Mr Casby to go out, without offering any further remark, and then took a peep at him over the little green window-blinds. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning he was almost blinded by his baffled passion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- With great indignation did he continue to observe him; with great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We have told our story of Europe; the reader may judge whether the glitter of the German sword is exceptionally blinding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He stared at her, groping in a blackness through which a single arrow of light tore its blinding way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Edison's great effort--not to make a large light or a blinding light, but a small light having the mildness of gas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No, sir, returned Mrs. Blinder, he was nothing but a follerers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Really, sir, I think she might, said Mrs. Blinder, getting her heavy breath by painful degrees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Chandler's shop, left hand side, name of Blinder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There she was, doing all this in a quiet motherly manner as if she were living in Mrs. Blinder's attic with Tom and Emma again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Upon the whole, not so bad, sir, said Mrs. Blinder; but certainly not so many as would have been if their father's calling had been different. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Blinder is entirely let, and she herself occupies poor Gridley's room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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