Blind vs Front - What's the difference?

Blind is a synonym of front.

As nouns the difference between blind and front

is that blind is 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 while front is the front end or side of something.

As an adjective blind

is (not comparable|of a person or animal) unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

As a verb blind

is to make temporarily or permanently blind.

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

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.

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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

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.

front

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Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

The side of a building with the main entrance.

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A field of activity.

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A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.

(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.

(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.

(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.

(military) The direction of the enemy.

(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.

(obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.

(informal) An act, show, , persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.

* Shakespeare

with smiling fronts encountering

* Macaulay

The inhabitants showed a bold front .

(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

* Elizabeth Browning

like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front

The most conspicuous part.

* Shakespeare

the very head and front of my offending

(obsolete) The beginning.

* Shakespeare

summer's front

(UK) a seafront or coastal promenade.

(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

* Alexander Pope

Bless'd with his father's front , his mother's tongue.

* Shakespeare

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front .

* Prior

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

Synonyms

* (l)

Antonyms

* back * rear

Derived terms

* active front * arctic front * battlefront * beachfront * back to front/back-to-front * bowfront * breakfront * cold front * common front * company front * confront * fly front * forefront * frontage * frontal * front and center * front bench/frontbench * front bottom * front burner * frontcourt * front crawl * front door * front drive * front end/front-end * front-facing * front fee * front foot * front grant * front group * frontispiece * frontless * frontlet * frontline/front line * front load * front man * front matter * front money * frontmost * front name * frontness * front nine * front office * front of house * front of the house * front organization * front page * front porch * front projector * front range * front ring * front room * front row * front runner * front running * front stall/front-stall * front teeth * front vowel * front wall * frontward * frontwards * front-wheel drive * frontwise * front yard * home front * in front * in front of * lakefront * occluded front * oceanfront * out-front * polar front * popular front * riverfront * seafront * shirtfront * shock front * shop front/shopfront * shorefront * stationary front * storefront * up front/upfront * warm front * waterfront * weather front * Y-fronts * zip-front

Hyponyms

* (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves) (nautical) (of a ship)

Adjective

(-)

Located at or near the front.

The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.

(comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.

Synonyms

* (located near the front) first, lead, fore

Antonyms

* (located near the front) back, last, rear * (of a vowel) back

Verb

(en verb)

(dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.

*:The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.

*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin, 2011, p.35:

*:The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.

*1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam, 2011, p.312:

*:They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.

*2010 , Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books , Blog, 26 March:

*:The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.

To face, be opposite to.

*1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin, 1985, p.66:

*:After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice :

*:down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.

*1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.49:

*:She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.

To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.

*, II.6:

*:those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.

*1623 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :

*:What well-appointed leader fronts us here?

To adorn the front of; to put on the front.

*2001 , (Terry Goodkind), The Pillars of Creation , p.148:

*:Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.

(phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.

*2005 , Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology , p.48:

*:The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.

(linguistics) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.

(slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).

*2007 , Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher , p.183:

*:Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.

To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).

*2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian :

*:Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.

(colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.

*2004 , (Danielle Steele), Ransom , p.104:

*:I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.

To assume false or disingenuous appearances.

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*2008 , Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:

*:Boy don't try to front , / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.

*2008 Markus Naerheim, The City , p.531

*:You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin' .

To appear before, as in to front court.

Synonyms

* (assume false appearances) put on airs, feign

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