blind

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Editorial note

"FB is turning a blind eye to keep their revenue" seems to stand up to Occam's Razor.

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Quick take

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blind gathered in one view.

noun

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

noun

a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

noun

a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blind.

noun

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"

noun

a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"

noun

a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

noun

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"

verb

render unable to see

verb

make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"

verb

make dim by comparison or conceal

adjective

unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan

adjective

unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"

adjective

not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

Example sentences

"FB is turning a blind eye to keep their revenue" seems to stand up to Occam's Razor.

You mean like, blind and deaf people Accessibility?

You'll never be forgotten, and god willing maybe you'll inspire a few to take revenge on your blind, callous killer.

"There's a blind spot in prose like this that gets repeated all over the place in our community: it emphasizes writing over reading.

If you've ever run a company or any sort of organization, you'll realize that walking around blind is the default.

But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever.

And increasingly tooling is placing such things closer and closer to "the act of programming", and yet Victor himself still seems to be quite blind to the idea of these things as "programming".

I hate that heavy, dangerous, gas-guzzling honda civic with an over-sensitive brake pedal and enormous, completely pointless blind spots over both shoulders.

For all of Victor's examples of the willingly blind programmers of the 1960s who saw things like symbolic coding, object oriented design and so forth as "not programming" and more like clerical work he makes fundamentally the same error.