blind
IPA: bɫˈaɪnd
noun
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, 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 hiding place.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- (Midland US, Appalachia) Window shutters.
- A surname.
verb
- (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.
adjective
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- (LGBT, slang) Uncircumcised
adverb
- Without seeing; unseeingly.
- (colloquial) Absolutely, totally.
- (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
- (cooking, especially in combination with 'bake') As a pastry case only, without any filling.
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Examples of "blind" in Sentences
- She began to study the blindness.
- He is now in the country of the blind.
- The school is for the deaf and the blind.
- The metropolis operates the school for the blind.
- Is this here the dictatorship of the blind people
- They might turn a blind eye to the morally opprobrious means.
- Eye donation and Prevention of blindness was the district project.
- So desperate that they might turn a blind eye to the morally opprobrious means.
- The girl's eyes are sightless and clouded, and he understands that she is blind.
- The civic body turns a blind eye to this blatant flouting of norms by various political parties.
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