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Definition: Blinding |
BlindingAdjective1. Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blinding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The application of a fine material to a surface, to reduce surface voids or to cover a bituminous binder. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The spreading of grit or sand to fill the voids in a road wearing surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A finer material, such as sand, muram, used for filling the interstices of metal, or for forming a smooth running surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Covering the tiles immediately after laying with earth in oder to prevent the tile from being moved out of alignment, to prevent breakage during the backfilling operation, and to provide permeable soil in contact with the tile. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A layer of lean concrete usually 3 to 4 in. thick, put down on soil such as clay to seal it and provide a clean bed for reinforcement to be laid on. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | Choking, progressive or not, of a porous or fibrous layer or of an apparatus by deposits of solid or liquid particles ; obstruction of the pores of a filter by deposition of solid matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A marked and undesirable loss of lustre of fibres caused by wet processing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A condition imposed on an individual(or group of individuals)for the purpose of keeping that individual or group of individuals from knowing or learning of some fact or observation, such as treatment assignment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. In leaching, reduced permeability of ion-exchange resins due to adherent slimes. In sieving, blocking of screen apertures by particles b. A matting of, or stoppage by, fine materials during screening that interferes with or blinds the screen mesh. c. Compacting soil immediately over a tile drain to reduce its tendency tomove into the tile. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Loss of ink receptivity in the litographic plates image areas(blind image, running blind). Source: European Union. (references) |
Statistics | In a medical experiment, the comparison of treatments may be distorted if the patient, the person administering the treatment and those evaluating it know which treatment is being allocated. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the patient and/or the person administering the treatment and/or the trial evaluators are'blind to'(don't know)which treatment is allocated to whom. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BlindingSynonyms: blazing (adj), dazzling (adj), fulgent (adj), glaring (adj), glary (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blinding |
| English words defined with "blinding": batfowl, Bisson. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blinding": piano wire screen ♦ vibrating screen. (references) |
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Screenplays | And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love (Blue Velvet; writing credit: David Lynch) | |
Lyrics | Then a blinding light (Don't Lose My Number; performing artist: Phil collins) The speed of love is blinding, (Until I Find You Again; performing artist: Richard Marx) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Blinding light. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Driving Into Blinding Sun" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "A car driving west on Minnesota Hwy. 30 into the sunset on a September evening." | "Starving Eyes" by César Ovalle Commentary: "Such blinding stars for starving eyes." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom pulled his cap over his eyes to shut out the blinding sun. |
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Health | Diabetic retinopathy is a potentially blinding complication of diabetes that damages the eye's retina. (references) | |
The hypothesis and methods of the trial are very precise and well thought out. Clinical trial designs, as well as the concepts of blinding and randomization, have developed over years of experimentation, trial, and error. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | You're a zealot if you can't see the blinding irony inherent in using force to convince other people that your belief about the unknowable is more accurate than their belief in the unknowable. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Blinding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 52.41% of the time. "Blinding" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 52.41% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 43.45% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "blinding": effing and blinding. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blinding": blinding-white. | |
Ending with "blinding": double-blinding, radar-blinding, sun-blinding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blinding edge picture | 13 |
blinding boot speed | 8 |
blinding boot morrowind speed | 4 |
blinding | 2 |
blinding cinema light | 2 |
blinding light | 2 |
blinding science | 2 |
blinding concrete design mix | 2 |
blinding samson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blinding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | verbues (dazzling, glaring, meteoric), verbim (blackout, dazzle, dazzling), hutues (baffling, perplexing). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعمية (mystification). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ослепителен (dazzling, flaring, glaring, intense, vivid), заслепяващ (dazzling), заслепение. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蒙蔽 (Blinded). (various references) | |
Czech | příšerný (appalling, atrocious, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, unholy, unspeakable, villainous, weird), oslepující (dazzling, garish, glaring). (various references) | |
Danish | blinding (dazzling, glare), blindet behandling (blind, mask), blænding (dazzling, glare), udspredning af skærver (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), tilstoppet (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, plugged), tilstopning (blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging, fouling, loading, obstruction, occlusion, plugging, sticking), tildaekning (sheeting), kantning (edging, trinning), gå blind, gøre mat, forblænde, afstrøning (choking), afdaekning (masking, tegmentum, tubeshield). (various references) | |
Dutch | blindlopen, bedekken (cover), blind onderzoek (blind, mask), blind experiment (blind experiment, blind study, blinded study, masked study), omboorden (to trim with tapes), mat worden (tarnish), dof worden (clouding, tarnish), dichtkoeken (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging), walsen van afdekmateriaal, omboren, afdichting (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, grommet, labyrinth seal, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up, plug, seal, seal grommet, sealing, slab, weatherstrip), verstopping (constipation, impediment, obstruction), afzanden (choking), afvlakken (blindage, flattening, level down, levelling, levelling down high spots, make flush, planning, smooth, smoothing), afstrooien met steenslag (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), afsplitten (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings). (various references) | |
Finnish | vahvistaa reuna kantilla, tukkeutuminen (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, loading), sokkolääkitys (blind, mask), sirotteen levitys (choking), peittäminen (covering, dump cover, masking), hiekoitus (choking). (various references) | |
French | béton de propreté, bordage, bouchage (blockage), gommage, aveuglant, aveugle (blind, blinded), cloutage, colmatage (blockage of the filter, mesh blinding), colmatation (blockage of the filter), éblouissement (blooming), engorgement (blockage of the filter), sablage (blasting, grit blast technique, sand blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting), gravillonnage, matériau de fermeture (blindage), obstruction (blockage, blocking), perte de lustre, procédure d'aveugle, procédure d'insu, recouvrement, refus, encrassement (blockage of the filter). (various references) | |
German | blendung (dazzling, glare), blendend (bedazzling, blindingly, brilliant, dazzling, dazzlingly, sparkling, specious, splendid). (various references) | |
Greek | εκτυφλωτικός, διάστρωση λιθοσυντριμμάτων (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), διάστρωση σκύρων (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), θάμπωμα (bloom, blooming, delustring, dulling, fogging, frosting, staining, tarnishing, weathering), τυφλό (blank, blind, mask), επίστρωση (coat of paint, covering, veneer), διάστρωση ψηφίδων (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), επικάλυψις σωλήνων στραγγίσεως, ρέλιασμα (hemming, rand), φράξιμο (blanking, blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging), υλικόν επικαλύψεως (blindage), πιάσιμο του φίλτρου με στερεές ουσίες (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging), στρίφωμα (selvage), στόμωση (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, dulling), έμφραξη (blockage, infarction, occlusion), επιπλήρωση (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, enrichment of the soil with loam, silting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסנור (dazzling, glaring, staring), סנוור (dazzling, striking blind). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megvakítás, kápráztató (dazzling, gorgeous). (various references) | |
Italian | ostruzione (blockage, obstruction), esperimento in cieco (blind experiment, blind study, blinded study, masked study), granigliatura (blasting, chippings, grit blast technique, grit-blasting, gritting, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, spreading of chippings, steel grit blasting), ingorgo (blockage, choke, engorgement, hold up, jam), intasamento (block, choke, stoppage), inzeppatura, materiale di riempimento (blindage, filler, mineral filler), chiusura (clam, clamp, closing, closure, end, fastening, lock, shutdown, shutting, zip), orlatura (edging), test in cieco, otturazione (blocking, closing, filling, sealing, stopping, stuffing), perdita d'appretto, ricopertura (masking, overlay, overlay technique, taping), sabbiatura (sand-bath, sandblasting), spargimento di graniglia (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), studio in singolo cieco (blind, mask), tappamento (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging), metodo cieco. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 眩惑 (dazzling), 目眩く (dazzling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めくるめく (dazzling), げんわく (bewitching, dazzling, fascination, glamor). (various references) | |
Korean | 누멀게 함. (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo doal, doalley (blind), doallee, doallaghey (blind), dallee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indingblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | revirado, recusa (denegation, denial, disallowance, impugnment, negation, no, non-compliance, rebuff, refusal, refuse, rejection), recobrimento (bootleg mark, fold, folding, overlay, overlay technique, recurrent lap, single lap, surging lap, teeming lap, wash marking), perda de lustro, material de selagem (blindage), espalhamento de areia (choking), entupimento (choke, clog, obstruction), colmatagem (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, enrichment of the soil with loam, formation plugging, plugging, silting). (various references) | |
Romanian | orbire (blindness, delusion, ignorance, infatuation, unconsciousness). (various references) | |
Russian | слепить ослепительный, сбивающий с толку (confusing, off-putting, puzzling), ослепляющий, ослепление (blindness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaslepljujući (dazzling, flaming), zaslepljenost (blindness). (various references) | |
Spanish | deslumbrante (dazzling, glaringly), deslumbramiento (dazzle, glare). (various references) | |
Swedish | blindgång, bländning (disbudding, suckering), bländande (glaring), stabiliserande återfyllning, pågrusspridning (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), pågrus (chippings, gritting, spreading of chippings), kantning (edging), igensättning (blockage of the filter, choking, clogging, gumming, loading), glättning (glazing, smoothing), avsandning (choking). (various references) | |
Thai | แสนจะสนุกสนาน (blinder), เจิดจ้ามากจนมองไม่เห็น. (various references) | |
Turkish | kör eden, göz kamaştırıcı (dazzling, doggy, flaring, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous, harsh, incandescent, resplendent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сліпучий (candescent, flaring, glaring, incandescent), осліплення. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | James Chapter 1, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ginesqe de poihtai logou kai mh monon akroatai paralogizomenoi eautouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Estote autem factores verbi et non auditores tantum fallentes vosmet ipsos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But be ye doeris of the word, and not hereris oneli, disseiuynge you silf. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And se that ye be doars of the worde and not hearers only deceavinge youre awne selves with sophistrie |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | James Chapter 1, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Hinoon tumana ninyo ang pulong, ug dili kay magpaminaw ra kamo niini, nga sa ingon ginalimbongan kamo sa inyong kaugalingon. |
| Chinese | 只 是 你 們 要 行 道 、 不 要 單 單 聽 道 、 自 己 欺 哄 自 己 ． |
| Croatian | Budite vršitelji rijeèi, a ne samo slušatelji, zavaravajuæi sami sebe. |
| Danish | Men vorder Ordets Gørere og ikke alene dets Hørere, hvormed I bedrage eder selv. |
| Dutch | En zijt daders des Woords, en niet alleen hoorders, uzelven met valse overlegging bedriegende. |
| Finnish | Mutta olkaa sanan tekijöitä, eikä vain sen kuulijoita, pettäen itsenne. |
| French | Mettez en pratique la parole, et ne vous bornez pas à l`écouter, en vous trompant vous-mêmes par de faux raisonnements. |
| German | Seid aber Täter des Worts und nicht Hörer allein, wodurch ihr euch selbst betrügt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hendaklah kalian melakukan apa yang dikatakan oleh Allah, jangan hanya mendengarkan saja, sehingga dengan demikian kalian menipu diri sendiri. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi hendaklah kamu menjadi penurut pengajaran itu, bukannya orang yang mendengar sahaja dengan memperdayakan dirinya sendiri. |
| Italian | Siate di quelli che mettono in pratica la parola e non soltanto ascoltatori, illudendo voi stessi. |
| Latvian | Esiet vârda izpildîtâji, bet ne tikai klausîtâji, paði sevi apmânîdami, |
| Maori | Hei kaimahi ano koutou i te kupu, kaua hei kaiwhakarongo anake, kei tinihangatia koutou e koutou ano. |
| Norwegian | Men vær ordets gjørere, og ikke bare dets hørere, idet I dårer eder selv. |
| Rumanian | Fiyi kmplinitori ai Cuvkntului, nu numai ascultqtori, knwelkndu-vq singuri. |
| Shuar | Yus-Chicham umikta. Aya ántukaip. Aya ántakmeka amek ananmamattame. |
| Spanish | Pero sed hacedores de la palabra, y no solamente oidores, engañándoos a vosotros mismos. |
| Swahili | Msijidanganye wenyewe kwa kusikiliza tu neno lake, bali litekelezeni kwa vitendo. |
| Uma | Jadi', kana tatuku' -mi Lolita Pue', neo' ra'epe mara-wadi. Apa' ane ta'epe mara-wadi, mpobagiu woto-ta moto-tamo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blinding": blindingly. (additional references) | |
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"Blinding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bildung, Bilsdean, Blandin, Blandina, Blandine, blanding, Blendinger, Blenning, blindings, blundun, Blyddyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blinding" (pronounced blī"nding) |
| 5 | -ī" n d i ng | binding, finding, grinding, minding, nonbinding, reminding, unwinding, winding. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | apprehending, abounding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, banding, bending, blending, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, condescending, confounding, contending, corresponding, defending, defunding, demanding, depending, descending, disbanding, ending, expanding, expending, expounding, extending, fending, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grounding, handing, hounding, impending, intending, landing, lending, longstanding, masterminding, mending, misspending, misunderstanding, notwithstanding, offending, outspending, outstanding, overextending, overfunding, overspending, pending, portending, pounding, pretending, rebounding, recommending, refunding, relending, rending, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sending, sounding, spellbinding, spending, standing, stranding, surrounding, suspending, tending, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, upstanding, vending, wending, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: binding. | |
-2 letters: biding, dining, idling, indign, lignin, lining, niding. | |
-3 letters: bindi, blind, blini, linin. | |
-4 letters: bind, blin, ding, gild, glib, ling, linn, nidi. | |
-5 letters: bid, big, bin, dib, dig, din, gib, gid, gin, inn, lib, lid, lin, nib, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: bindingly. | |
+2 letters: blindingly, unbridling, unbuilding. | |
+3 letters: blandishing, blindsiding, imboldening, nonbuilding. | |
+4 letters: blindfolding, linebreeding, nonbuildings, spellbinding. | |
+5 letters: linebreedings. | |
| 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. | |
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