blinds

/blaɪndz/

IPA: /B L AY1 N D Z/

noun

1
A 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
A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3
Any device intended to conceal or hide.
“a duck blind”
4
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
5
A blindage.
6
A halting place.
7
The blindside.
8
(1800s) No score.
9
A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
“The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.”
10
A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
“The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.”
11
(as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.

Synonyms

verb

1
To make temporarily or permanently blind.
“Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?”
2
To curse.
3
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
4
To 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.

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