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Blind vs Through - What's the difference?

blind | through |

As adjectives the difference between blind and through

is that blind is (not comparable|of a person or animal) unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors while through is passing from one side of an object to the other.

As nouns the difference between blind and through

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 through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

As adverbs the difference between blind and through

is that blind is without seeing; unseeingly while through is from one side to the other by way of the interior.

As a verb blind

is to make temporarily or permanently blind.

As a preposition through is

from one side of an opening to the other.

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.

    • through

    English

    Alternative forms

    * thorow (obsolete) * thru

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) *. See also thorough.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • From one side of an opening to the other.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • Entering, then later leaving.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
  • Surrounded by (while moving).
  • :
  • *, chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.
  • By means of.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, title=Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos
    • , work=BBC Sport citation , passage=But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
  • (lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
  • :
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived using the preposition "through") * clear through * feedthrough * get through * go through * look through * right through * through and through * through with * throughput * throughway

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Passing from one side of an object to the other.
  • :
  • Finished; complete.
  • :
  • Valueless; without a future.
  • :
  • No longer interested.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
  • *1977 , Iggy Pop,
  • *:I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs
  • Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
  • :

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • From one side to the other by way of the interior.
    • The arrow went straight through .
  • From one end to the other.
    • Others slept; he worked straight through .
    She read the letter through .
  • To the end.
    • He said he would see it through .
  • Completely.
    • Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through .
  • Out into the open.
    • The American army broke through at St. Lo.

    References

    * Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

    • Statistics

    * 100 English basic words 200 English basic words English locatives