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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblaɪndə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblaɪndɚ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective[edit]
blinder
- comparative form of blind: more blind
- 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:
- Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.
Noun[edit]
blinder (plural blinders)
- Something that blinds.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15, [1]
- As it was, innocence was his blinder.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15, [1]
- A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
- A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
- 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,
- From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
- 1978 Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207,
- Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
- 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,
- (Britain, slang) An exceptional performance.
- He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
- 1992, Glyn Maxwell, "Out of the Rain" in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 91,
- And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
- (slang) A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
- 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [2]
- If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
- 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [2]
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
horse's eye shield
Verb[edit]
blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)
- (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
- 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,
- […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
- 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, p. 248,
- They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.
- 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
blinder
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of blinder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | blinder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | blindant /blɛ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | blindé /blɛ̃.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | blinde /blɛ̃d/ |
blindes /blɛ̃d/ |
blinde /blɛ̃d/ |
blindons /blɛ̃.dɔ̃/ |
blindez /blɛ̃.de/ |
blindent /blɛ̃d/ |
imperfect | blindais /blɛ̃.dɛ/ |
blindais /blɛ̃.dɛ/ |
blindait /blɛ̃.dɛ/ |
blindions /blɛ̃.djɔ̃/ |
blindiez /blɛ̃.dje/ |
blindaient /blɛ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | blindai /blɛ̃.de/ |
blindas /blɛ̃.da/ |
blinda /blɛ̃.da/ |
blindâmes /blɛ̃.dam/ |
blindâtes /blɛ̃.dat/ |
blindèrent /blɛ̃.dɛʁ/ | |
future | blinderai /blɛ̃.dʁe/ |
blinderas /blɛ̃.dʁa/ |
blindera /blɛ̃.dʁa/ |
blinderons /blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
blinderez /blɛ̃.dʁe/ |
blinderont /blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | blinderais /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
blinderais /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
blinderait /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
blinderions /blɛ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
blinderiez /blɛ̃.də.ʁje/ |
blinderaient /blɛ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | blinde /blɛ̃d/ |
blindes /blɛ̃d/ |
blinde /blɛ̃d/ |
blindions /blɛ̃.djɔ̃/ |
blindiez /blɛ̃.dje/ |
blindent /blɛ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | blindasse /blɛ̃.das/ |
blindasses /blɛ̃.das/ |
blindât /blɛ̃.da/ |
blindassions /blɛ̃.da.sjɔ̃/ |
blindassiez /blɛ̃.da.sje/ |
blindassent /blɛ̃.das/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | blinde /blɛ̃d/ |
— | blindons /blɛ̃.dɔ̃/ |
blindez /blɛ̃.de/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “blinder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blinder
Adjective[edit]
blinder
- inflection of blind:
Old Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse blinder, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.
Adjective[edit]
blinder
Declension[edit]
Declension of blinder (strong)
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | blinder | blind | blint |
accusative | blindan | blinda | blint |
dative | blindum, -om | blindri, -re | blindu, -o |
genitive | blinds | blindrar | blinds |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | blindir, -e(r) | blindar | blind |
accusative | blinda | blindar | blind |
dative | blindum, -om | blindum, -om | blindum, -om |
genitive | blindra | blindra | blindra |
Declension of blinder (weak)
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | blindi, -e | blinda | blinda |
accusative | blinda | blindu, -o | blinda |
dative | blinda | blindu, -o | blinda |
genitive | blinda | blindu, -o | blinda |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | blindu, -o | blindu, -o | blindu, -o |
accusative | blindu, -o | blindu, -o | blindu, -o |
dative | blindu, -o | blindu, -o | blindu, -o |
genitive | blindu, -o | blindu, -o | blindu, -o |
Descendants[edit]
- Swedish: blind
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
blinder m (plural blinderau)
Derived terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
blinder | flinder | mlinder | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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