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Blinds

noun
/blaɪndz/
Word Frequency: 1.3

Definitions

1.nounA covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
2.nounA destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3.nounAny device intended to conceal or hide.
"a duck blind"
4.nounSomething to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
5.nounA blindage.
6.nounA halting place.
7.nounThe blindside.
8.noun(1800s) No score.
9.nounA forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
"The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1."
10.nounA player who is forced to pay such a bet.
"The blinds immediately folded when I reraised."
11.noun(as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
12.verbTo make temporarily or permanently blind.
"Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?"
13.verbTo curse.
14.verbTo darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
15.verbTo cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Synonyms

rollsignsand-blindpurblindvisually impairedblindfoldedexcecatedim-sightedblindfoldstone-blindsightlesseyelessunseeing

Rhymes With

meeting of mindsgrindsfindsremindskindswindesmindsbinds
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