blind

B1
Pronunciation
/blaɪnd/
Noun
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.

2 Definition

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

3 Definition

Any device intended to conceal or hide.

Example Sentences
  • a duck blind
4 Definition

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

5 Definition

A blindage.

6 Definition

A halting place.

7 Definition

The blindside.

8 Definition

(1800s) No score.

9 Definition

A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

Example Sentences
  • The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.
10 Definition

A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

Example Sentences
  • The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.
11 Definition

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

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

To make temporarily or permanently blind.

Example Sentences
  • Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
2 Definition

To curse.

3 Definition

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

4 Definition

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
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

(of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

Antonyms
seeing sighted
2 Definition

(of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

3 Definition

Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

Example Sentences
  • Authors are blind to their own defects.
4 Definition

Of a place, having little or no visibility.

Example Sentences
  • a blind corner
5 Definition

Closed at one end; having a dead end

Example Sentences
  • a blind gut
6 Definition

Having no openings for light or passage.

Example Sentences
  • a blind alley
7 Definition

(in certain phrases) Smallest or slightest.

Example Sentences
  • I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
8 Definition

Without any prior knowledge.

Example Sentences
  • He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
9 Definition

Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

Example Sentences
  • blind deference
10 Definition

Unintelligible or illegible.

Example Sentences
  • a blind passage in a book; blind writing
11 Definition

Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

Example Sentences
  • blind buds
Adverb
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

Without seeing; unseeingly.

2 Definition

Absolutely, totally.

Example Sentences
  • to swear blind
3 Definition

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