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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