blurry English
Adjective
( er)
(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
- If I take off my glasses, everything close up looks blurry .
(figuratively) not clear, not with well-defined boundaries.
- It would seem that the line between flirting and sexual harrassment has become quite blurry.
Derived terms
* blurriness
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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
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* 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.
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