Alternative spellings

• (archaic) blinde

Noun

Singular blind

Plural blinds

blind (plural blinds)

1. 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.
2. Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.
3. (baseball, slang) An 1800s baseball term meaning no score.
4. (poker) A forced bet.
5. (poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.

Derived terms

• big blind
• blinders
• small blind
• Venetian blind
• blind map

Blind can refer to:

• The state of blindness, being unable to see
• Blind or double-blind, a procedure to reduce bias in scientific experiments
• A window blind, a covering for a window
• Hunting blind, used to conceal the observer when watching or hunting birds or other animals
• Blind (poker), a blind bet used for betting in certain forms of poker
• Blind-baking, the process of baking a pie crust or other pastry without the filling
• Blind hole, a mechanical engineering term for a hole that does not come out at the other side
• A digital signal processing term that indicates ignorance of certain parameters central to a process; e.g., blind deconvolution.
• Blind via, an electrical engineering term used in printed circuit boards
• Blind (film), a 2007 film by Tamar van den Dop
• Blind Skateboards, a skateboard company
• The Blind (Les Aveugles) was a play written in 1890 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck