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Blind vs Blink - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between blind and blink

is that blind is 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 while blink is the act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.

As verbs the difference between blind and blink

is that blind is to make temporarily or permanently blind while blink is to close and reopen both eyes quickly.

As an adjective blind

is unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

As an adverb blind

is without seeing; unseeingly.

blind

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) blinde

Adjective

(er)
  • (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
  • * 1883 , ,
    • He was plainly blind , for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
  • (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
  • (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
    • The lovers were blind to each other's faults.
    Authors are blind to their own defects.
  • (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
    • a blind''' path; a '''blind''' ditch; a '''blind corner
  • * Milton
    • the blind mazes of this tangled wood
  • (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.
  • (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
    • a blind''' wall, open only at one end; a '''blind''' alley; a '''blind gut
  • smallest or slightest in phrases such as
    • I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
    ''We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
  • (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
    • He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
  • (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
    • blind deference
    blind punishment
  • * Jay
    • This plan is recommended neither to blind' approbation nor to ' blind reprobation.
  • Unintelligible or illegible.
    • a blind''' passage in a book; '''blind writing
  • (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
    • blind''' buds; '''blind flowers

    Derived terms

    * blind alley * blind as a bat * blind curve * blind date * blind drunk (See also ) * blind gut * blind map * blind pig * blind pool * blind spot * blind stamp * the blind leading the blind * blind tiger * blinders * blindfish * blindfold * blindman's buff * blinds * blindworm * double-blind * * love is blind * moon-blind * night-blind * purblind * rob somebody blind * snow-blind * stereoblind * word-blind

    See also

    * invisible (unable to be seen ) * anosmic * deaf * print disabled

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering for a window to keep out light. The may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
  • * '>citation
  • A mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
  • Any device intended to conceal or hide.
    • a duck blind
  • Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
  • (military) A blindage.
  • A halting place.
    • (Dryden)
  • No score.
  • (poker) A forced bet.
  • (poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.

    • Synonyms

    * (destination sign) rollsign (mainly US)

    Derived terms

    * big blind * blinders * small blind * Venetian blind * blind map

    See also

    * curtain * jalousie

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make temporarily or permanently blind.
    • The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded .
    Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
  • * South
    • A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is a much greater.
  • (slang, obsolete) To curse.
  • * 1890 , Rudyard Kipling,
    • If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
    Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind ;
    Be handy and civil, and then you will find
    That it's beer for the young British soldier.
  • To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
  • * Dryden
    • Such darkness blinds the sky.
  • * Stillingfleet
    • The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * blind with science * blinder * blinding * blindness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Without seeing; unseeingly.
  • (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

    • blink

    English

    Verb

  • To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
    • The loser in the staring game is the person who blinks first.
  • To flash headlights on a car at.
    • An urban legend claims that gang members will attack anyone who blinks them.
  • To send a signal with a lighting device.
    • Don't come to the door until I blink twice.
  • To flash on and off at regular intervals.
    • The blinking text on the screen was distracting.
  • (hyperbole) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
  • * 1980 , Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses , Columbia Records
    • All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink .
  • To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
    • to blink the question
  • (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.
    • (Jamieson)
  • To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • One eye was blinking , and one leg was lame.
  • To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne.
  • To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
  • * Wordsworth
    • The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink .
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sun blinked fair on pool and stream.
  • To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
  • (label) To teleport, mostly for short distances

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
  • (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
  • (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
  • * 2007 , Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond (page 150)
    • I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.
  • A glimpse or glance.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • This is the first blink that ever I had of him.
  • (UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
  • * Wordsworth
    • Not a blink of light was there.
    (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
  • (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
  • (label) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances

    • Related terms

    * blinkard * blinker * blinkie * blink of an eye * on the blink * wink ----