blinder

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat comparative form of blind: more blind

   “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.”

2. isim A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
3. isim A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.

   “From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.”

4. isim Something that impairs visual or mental perception in a way figuratively compared to horses' blinders.

   “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.”

5. isim An exceptional performance.

   “He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.”

6. isim A bout of heavy drinking.

   “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.”

7. isim A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.

   “When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]”

8. fiil To fit (a horse) with blinders.
9. fiil To obstruct the vision of.

   “[…] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky”