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Meaning of "half-blind" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-BLIND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-BLIND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Blind is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HALF-BLIND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-blind in the English dictionary

The definition of half-blind in the dictionary is having a limited capacity to see.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-BLIND

half-a-dollar
half-and-half
half-arsed
half-asleep
half-assed
half-awake
half-baked
half-ball
half-binding
half-blood
half-blooded
half-blue
half-board
half-boot
half-bottle
half-bound
half-breed
half-brother
half-buried
half-butt

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-BLIND

blind
color-blind
colour-blind
deafblind
double-blind
eff and blind
gender-blind
gravel-blind
night-blind
purblind
roller blind
Roman blind
sand blind
single-blind
snow-blind
stone-blind
sun blind
swear blind
unblind
Venetian blind
word-blind

Synonyms and antonyms of half-blind in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-blind» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-BLIND

Find out the translation of half-blind to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-blind from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-blind» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半盲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio ciego
570 millions of speakers

English

half-blind
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा अंधा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصف أعمى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полуслепой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semicego
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ-অন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à moitié aveugle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah buta
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halb blind
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

半盲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반 장님
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah-buta
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa mù
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை குருட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धा अंध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarı kör
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezzo cieco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wpół ślepy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

напівсліпий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pe jumătate orb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισότυφλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- blind
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv blinda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halvblind
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-blind

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-BLIND»

The term «half-blind» is regularly used and occupies the 74.395 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-BLIND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-blind

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-BLIND»

Discover the use of half-blind in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-blind and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Half Blind
Opposites attract...and drive each other crazy.
Christine Price, 2012
2
Field & Stream
It's easy to make and easy to move, and with the right camouflage, it will be hidden from the ducks' view The Half-Blind > * ** - V ' • A half-blind is simple to construct; there's a front and sides but no back or top, so it is easy to move to where the ...
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Field & Stream
It's easy to make and easy to move, and with the right camouflage, it will be hidden from the ducks' view The Half-Blind A half-blind is simple to construct; there's a front and sides but no back or top, so it is easy to move to where the action is ...
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Field & Stream
And since it is impractical to move a large blind, a hunter should consider building a half-blind. A half-blind is just that—half a blind. It has a front and sides, but no back or top. The front is slanted back so that a hunter can squeeze in close  ...
5
Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking
A half-blind dovetail (1) is used primarily where you want only one side of the joint to show. It is often used to join drawer fronts to sides. In that case, you usually don't want to see the joint on the front of the drawer, but a nicely made dovetail ...
Tage Frid, 1994
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Taunton's Complete Illustrated Guide to Routers
There are three types of commercially available dovetail jigs — half-blind, through, and combination, which will cut both. Half- blind dovetail jigs have been around almost as long as the router. These jigs cut the mechanical-looking joints that ...
Lonnie Bird, 2006
7
The Bridge of the Golden Horn
'Today and tomorrow you can sleep at my grandfather's, he's an old Social Democrat and half blind.' Bodo said: 'I'm in the Socialist Students' Association, the SDS. You know, I'm German, but I find the Germans creepy. Every German looks at ...
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 2007
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I See, Said the Blind Man
In the second case, the term mobility cane was dreamed up by some politically correct social worker. Another politically correct term that I dislike is visually handicapped or visually challenged. Hey folks, I'm legally blind; that is half blind.
Art Seamans, 2010
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Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales
In most of the tales an older, half-blind woman seeks a husband (sometimes younger). In Parsons's tale from the Sea islands ( "Folklore of the Sea Islands, South Carolina," Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 16, no. 117 [1923]: 114) it is ...
Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, 2009
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An English and Welsh Dictionary, Wherein, Not Only the ...
... Myned yn ddall, colli ei olwg; tywyllu fel y gwna y llygad. Stark-, or stone-blind ; Cwbl-ddall, heb weled mo'r tremyn lleiai, heb weled cymmaint a chydowyn. Half- blind, Hanner dall, ym mron yn ddall; cib-ddall. Pur-blind, Coeg-ddall, cib-ddall.
John Walters, Hannah Walters, 1828

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-BLIND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-blind is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vltava Fund: Literal Mania To grab Up Farmland In The Czech …
... with demonstrably excellent managers are traded on public markets, it seems to me almost futile to venture half-blind into private equity. «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
2
Can We Now Agree to Do Something About the Great Moth Problem?
They've just been invented by some half-blind doom-monger whose lack of design skills didn't stop them from creating a flappy, furry little shit. «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
3
Case of the mystery blindness cracked
Kirk still calls herself half-sighted and half-blind because she doesn't know if her new-found vision will stay. Schulte, however, said her ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
4
Why the Best Film about Pablo Picasso Is a Graphic Novel
For art aficionados, Pablo doesn't disappoint with the cameos. Edgar Degas pokes his head in, “half-blind, but as anti-Semitic as ever.” Henri Matisse emerges ... «Big Think, Jul 15»
5
Czech out this work of bone art in holy drawcard
My favourite is about how a half-blind monk, entrusted with the care of the chapel, started piling the bones into shapes. However, the ... «Fraser Coast Chronicle, Jul 15»
6
The long goodbye: confronting death
For others, averting our gaze from death means stumbling through life half-blind. Doughty is determined to lead the way in confronting mortality. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
7
FGM cutter says 'when you're cut you won't be a slut looking for men'
Half-blind Anna-Moora Ndege, aged 86, has been a cutter in Kenya for more than 70 years and uses a razor blade on her victims. FGM. «Metro, Jul 15»
8
Easy prey? Not anymore
But nothing can affect the zeal of some hyper-green groups, half-blind to all the damage brought about in coastal and even offshore oceanic ... «World Fishing, Jul 15»
9
Inside Money: Apteryx the administrator, or robot in disguise
Like its half-blind, nocturnal, flightless namesake, Apteryx the administrator isn't one for strutting about in public. Outside a certain sub-genre of ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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The top 10 most memorable first pitches
It's pretty sad when a puppeteer rendered half-blind and burdened by a giant dinosaur costume can manage a better first pitch than you. «HLNtv.com, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Half-Blind [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/half-blind>. Apr 2024 ».
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