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Blind can be a verb, an adverb, a noun or an adjective.
blind used as a verb:
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.
"The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
blind used as an adverb:
- Without seeing; unseeingly.
- In three card brag, without looking at the cards dealt.
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
blind used as a noun:
- 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.
- Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.
- An 1800s baseball term meaning no score.
- A forced bet.
- A player who is or was forced to make a bet.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
blind used as an adjective:
- Of a person or animal, unable to see.
- Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
"The lovers were blind to each other’s faults." - Of a place, having little or no visibility; as, a blind corner.
- Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.
- Without opening; as, a blind wall.
- smallest or slightest in phrases such as
"I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is blind?
- Verb usage: The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.
- Verb usage: Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?
- Adjective usage: The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
- Adjective usage: I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.
- Adjective usage: We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of blind are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of blind, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
