Blind Date

Definitions: Blind Date

Blind Date

Noun

1. A participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them).

2. A date with a stranger; "she never goes on blind dates".

Specialty Definition: Blind Date

Blind Date is the name of a British dating game show and an American reality show. The two shows share little except a name.

In the American version, couples who do not know each other are paired up and sent off on a date. The cameras follow their every move, and sarcastic subtitles, animations, and captions are added for the enjoyment of the viewers. The dates are generally unsuccessful, and this, too, appears to add to the enjoyment of the viewers. The show features and is aimed at young adults.

The British version has a format similar to the game known in North America as The Dating Game. Three singles of the same sex are introduced to the audience. They are then asked questions by a single of the opposite sex, who can hear but not see them, in order to choose which one he or she would prefer to go on a date with. When he or she has made a choice, and been introduced, the couple then get to randomly choose where they will go on the date.

The following episode will then show the film of the couple as they go on their date, and interviews with them about the date and about each other. This version is aimed at a family audience.

See also: blind date, the concept after which the shows are named.A blind date is a date between two people who have never met and typically know little or nothing about each other. They are generally arranged by a third party, usually a friend of one or both daters, either to bring together people the third party thinks might be compatible, but who might otherwise never meet or because one or both of the daters has requested this. Alternatively the match may have been made by a dating system.

See also: Blind Date, the name of a British game show and an American reality show.

Modern Usage: Blind Date

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	So if this is a blind date, how disappointed are you? (Moonlight and Valentino; writing credit: Ellen Simon) The guys nobody bets on. We've got a blind date with destiny! (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.) The blind date. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) The last time I went on a blind date, I got stuck with the check. (Julia; writing credit: Arthur Alsberg; Earl Barret)
Movie/TV Titles	Blind Date (1958) Raju's Blind Date (2002) Dave's Blind Date (2000) Blind Date (1999) Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Blind Date

Domain	Title
Books	A Blind Date With the World: The Great Global Scavanger Hunt (reference) Blind Date (reference) Blind Date (Harlequin Presents No. 2900) (reference) Blind Date with the Angel : The Diane Arbus Poems (reference) The Blind Date Book of Romance (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Blind Date (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Familiar Quotations: Blind Date

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blind Date

Modern Translations: Blind Date

Language		Translations for "blind date"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		schùzka naslepo. (various references)

French		rendez-vous-surprise, rendez-vous � l'aveugle, rencontre � l'aveuglette. (various references)

German		rendezvous mit einem unbekannten. (various references)

Hungarian		randevúra érkező ismeretlen, randevú (appointment, date, rendezvous, tryst), ismeretlennel, harmadik személy által összehozott randevú. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ブライダル�"�業 (blind, blind side, blind test, blind touch, blouse, Braun, brier, browse, browser, browsing, browsing tool, wedding industry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ブラインドデート . (various references)

Pig Latin		indblay ateday

Spanish		cita concertada con alguien a quien no se conoce. (various references)

Turkish		tanımadan buluşulan kimse, tanımadığı biriyle çıkma. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Blind Date

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: bidental, tideland.
	-2 letters: addible, bandied, blinded, dilated.
	-3 letters: abided, albeit, albite, alined, baddie, bailed, baited, balded, banded, bandit, bidden, binate, bindle, bladed, dandle, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dialed, dilate, dindle, dinted, entail, laddie, landed, nailed, tabled, tailed, tenail, tineal.
	-4 letters: abide, addle, aided, ailed, alien, aline, anile, anted, baled, baned, bated, bided, bidet.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-n-t"
	+3 letters: bloodstained.
	+4 letters: dependability.
	+5 letters: absentmindedly, undecidability.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Blind Date

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 69 6E 64 44 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0069 006E 0064 0044 0061 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Author	Quotation
William Henry	What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
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blind date tv	187	blind date tip	8
blind date tv show	172	blind date movie	8
blind date.com	154	blind date mpeg	7
blind date uncensored	145	blind date porte	7
blind date show	84	blind date video clip	6
blind date com	37	blind date fart video	6
blind date tv.com	33	blind date on the net	6
blind date video	29	blind date upn	6
blind date television show	27	blind date tawny	6
blind date uncut	24	blind date dvd	6
blind date excite show tv	18	blind date pic	6
blind date excite	18	blind date unsensored	5
blind date television	17	blind date avi	5
blind date fart	16	blind date picture	5
blind date pic uncensored	11	blind date indonesia	5
blind date excite.com	10	blind date show tv uncut	5
blind date tnn	10	blind date uncencored	4
blind date commercial	9	blind date web site	4
blind date lodge roger	9	blind date joke	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Blind Date

Definitions: Blind Date

Blind Date

Noun

Crosswords: Blind Date

Specialty Definition: Blind Date

Modern Usage: Blind Date

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Blind Date

Books

Theater & Movies

Familiar Quotations: Blind Date

William Henry

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blind Date

Modern Translations: Blind Date

Czech

French

German

Hungarian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Pig Latin

Spanish

Turkish

Anagrams: Blind Date

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Blind Date

42 6C 69 6E 64 44 61 74 65

01000010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000100 01100001 01110100 01100101

&#66 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#116 &#101

0042 006C 0069 006E 0064 0044 0061 0074 0065

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