Found 4 items, similar to Blind.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: blind
buta
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: blind
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: blind
blind
n 1: people who have severe visual impairments;
“he spent hours
reading to the blind”
2: a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck
hunters);
“he waited impatiently in the blind”
3: something that keeps things out or hinders sight;
“they had
just moved in and had not put up blinds yet” [syn:
screen]
4: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an
activity;
“he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge”;
“the
holding company was just a blind” [syn:
subterfuge]
blind
adj 1: unable to see [syn:
unsighted] [ant:
sighted]
2: unable or unwilling to perceive or understand;
“blind to a
lover's faults”;
“blind to the consequences of their
actions”
3: not based on reason or evidence;
“blind hatred”;
“blind
faith”;
“unreasoning panic” [syn:
unreasoning]
blind
v 1: render unable to see
2: make blind by putting the eyes out;
“The criminals were
punished and blinded”
3: make dim by comparison or conceal [syn:
dim]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Blind
Blind
\Blind\, a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind,
Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect
or by deprivation; without sight.
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He that is strucken blind can not forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --Shak.
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2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of
intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or
judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
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But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --Milton.
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3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
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This plan is recommended neither to blind
approbation nor to blind reprobation. --Jay.
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4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to
a person who is blind; not well marked or easily
discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path;
a blind ditch.
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5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
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The blind mazes of this tangled wood. --Milton.
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6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;
open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
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7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind
passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
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8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as,
blind buds; blind flowers.
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Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate
motion. --Knight.
Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people,
esp. at night.
Blind cat (Zo["o]l.), a species of catfish (
Gronias nigrolabris
), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns
in Pennsylvania.
Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal.
--Simmonds.
Blind door,
Blind window, an imitation of a door or
window, without an opening for passage or light. See
Blank door or
Blank window, under
Blank, a.
Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has
a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted
siphon. --Knight.
Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See
Dead nettle, under
Dead.
Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one
that does not explode.
Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak
or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or
disposed to see danger. --Swift.
Blind snake (Zo["o]l.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake,
of the family
Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes.
Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye
where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to
light.
Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the
indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; --
called also
blank tooling, and
blind blocking.
Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.
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Blind
\Blind\, n.
1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a
cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a
blinder for a horse.
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2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to
conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
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3. [Cf. F. blindes, p?., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind,
fr. blind blind.] (Mil.) A blindage. See
Blindage.
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4. A halting place. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Blind
\Blind\, Blinde
\Blinde\, n.
See
Blende.
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Blind
\Blind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blinding.]
1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
“To
blind the truth and me.” --Tennyson.
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A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
a much greater. --South.
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2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to; to dazzle.
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Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher.
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3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive.
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Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden.
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The state of the controversy between us he
endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
--Stillingfleet.
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4. 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.
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