Blindside vs Blindsight - What's the difference?
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(automotive) A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
(rugby) the space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
(rugby union) short for blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number .
* {{quote-news
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(informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.
The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
* 1992', , "Unconscious Vision: The Strange Phenomenon of '''Blindsight ," ''The Sciences , vol. 32, no. 5, p. 23:
As nouns the difference between blindside and blindsight
is that blindside is a driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver while blindsight is the responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.As a verb blindside
is to catch off guard; to take by surprise.blindside
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* blind-sideNoun
(en noun)- ''The blindside [flanker] packs down at the scrum on the blindside.
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* (English Citations of "blindside")blindsight
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(-)- On more pointed testing Sanders and I, along with the National Hospital psychologist Elizabeth K. Warrington, discovered to our amazement that Daniel's "blind" field was not blind at all in the usual sense. . . . When objects were placed in his blind field, he made virtually no errors locating them, though he could not tell us what they were. . . . "I couldn't see anything, not a darn thing," Daniel told us. All he would allow was a "feeling" about an object in some, but not all, [of] the tests. We named the extraordinary phenomenon blindsight .