different between blind vs casual

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) blinde

Etymology

From Middle English blind, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Adjective

blind (comparative blinder, superlative blindest)

1. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

   Synonym: sightless

   Antonyms: seeing, sighted

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island,

     He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...

2. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
3. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

4. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
5. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
6. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.

7. (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.

8. (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.

9. (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
   • 1787–1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers

     This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.

10. (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.

11. Unintelligible or illegible.

12. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

13. (LGBT, slang) Uncircumcised

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• invisible (unable to be seen)
• anosmic
• deaf
• print disabled

Noun

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. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.

4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
5. (military) A blindage.
6. A halting place.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

7. (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
8. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
9. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

10. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

Synonyms

• (destination sign): rollsign (mainly US)

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

• curtain
• jalousie

Verb

blind (third-person singular simple present blinds, present participle blinding, simple past and past participle blinded)

1. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
   • May 9, 1686 (date of preaching), Robert South, The Fatal Imposture and Force of Words (sermon)

     A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is […] a much greater.

2. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier

     If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
     Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
     Be handy and civil, and then you will find
     That it's beer for the young British soldier.

3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
   • 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome

     The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.

4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Derived terms

• blind with science
• blinder
• blinding
• blindness

Translations

Adverb

blind (comparative more blind, superlative most blind)

1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
2. (colloquial) Absolutely, totally.
3. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
4. (cooking, especially in combination with 'bake') As a pastry case only, without any filling.

Translations

References

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch blind, from Middle Dutch blint, from Old Dutch *blint, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nt/

Adjective

blind (attributive blinde, comparative blinder, superlative blindste)

1. blind (unable to see)

Derived terms

• blindheid

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -end

Adjective

blind

1. blind

Inflection

References

• “blind” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nt/
• Hyphenation: blind
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch blint, from Old Dutch *blint, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Adjective

blind (comparative blinder, superlative blindst)

1. blind (unable to see)

Inflection

Derived terms

• blinde vink
• blinde vlek
• blindheid
• verblinden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: blind

Etymology 2

From blinden.

Alternative forms

• blinde f

Noun

blind n (plural blinden, diminutive blindje n)

1. window shutter

Synonyms

• luik

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German blint, from Proto-West Germanic *blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nt/

Adjective

blind (comparative blinder, superlative am blindesten)

1. blind
2. (of a mirror or windowpane) cloudy
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:

Declension

Derived terms

• blinder Passagier
• farbenblind
• nachtblind

See also

• blenden

Further reading

• “blind” in Duden online

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German blint, from Old Saxon blind. Cognate to Dutch blind, German blind.

Adjective

blind (comparative blinner, superlative blinnst)

1. blind

Declension

Icelandic

Adjective

blind

1. inflection of blindur:
   1. feminine singular nominative strong positive degree
   2. neuter plural nominative strong positive degree
   3. neuter plural accusative strong positive degree

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blynd, blend, blin

Etymology

From Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bli?nd/, /blind/

Adjective

blind

1. blind, sightless

Descendants

• English: blind
• Scots: blind, blynd
• Yola: blin

References

• “bl??nd, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Adjective

blind (neuter singular blindt, definite singular and plural blinde)

1. blind

Derived terms

References

• “blind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz. Akin to English blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?n?/, /bl?nd/

Adjective

blind (masculine and feminine blind, neuter blindt, definite singular and plural blinde, comparative blindare, indefinite superlative blindast, definite superlative blindaste)

1. blind

Derived terms

Verb

blind

1. imperative of blinda

References

• “blind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blind/

Adjective

blind

1. blind

2. (substantive) a blind person

Declension

Related terms

• blindnes
• blendan
• blindl??e

Descendants

• Middle English: blind, blynd, blend, blin
  • English: blind
  • Scots: blind, blynd
  • Yola: blin

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blind.

Adjective

blind

1. blind

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish blinder, from Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

blind (comparative blindare, superlative blindast)

1. blind; unable or failing to see

Declension

Derived terms

• blindgång
• blindgångare
• blindbock
• blindstyre
• färgblind

English

Alternative forms

• casuall (obsolete)
• (shortening, informal) cazh

Etymology

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin c?su?lis (“happening by chance”), from Latin c?sus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?u?l/, /?ka?ju?l/, /?kazju?l/, /?ka??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ?u?l/, /?kæ?w?l/, /?kæ??l/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k????l/, /?k???l/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /-uæl/
• Hyphenation: ca?su?al, cas?ual, casu?al

Adjective

casual (comparative more casual, superlative most casual)

1. Happening by chance.

   • casual breaks, in the general system

2. Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

   • a constant habit, rather than a casual gesture

3. Employed irregularly.

4. Careless.
   • 2007, Nick Holland, The Girl on the Bus (page 117)

     I removed my jacket and threw it casually over the back of the settee.

5. Happening or coming to pass without design.
   • 2012, Jeff Miller, Grown at Glen Garden: Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and the Little Texas Golf Course that Propelled Them to Stardom

     Hogan assumed the entire creek bed was to be played as a casual hazard, moved his ball out and assessed himself a one-stroke penalty.

6. Informal, relaxed.
7. Designed for informal or everyday use.

Synonyms

• (happening by chance): accidental, fortuitous, incidental, occasional, random; see also Thesaurus:accidental
• (happening or coming to pass without design): unexpected
• (relaxed; everyday use): informal

Antonyms

• (happening by chance): inevitable, necessary
• (happening or coming to pass without design): expected, scheduled
• (relaxed; everyday use): ceremonial, formal

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

casual (plural casuals)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
2. A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
3. (Britain) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
4. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
5. (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.

6. (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
   • 1972, Lee C. Garrison, "The Needs of Motion Picture Audiences", California Management Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, Winter 1972, page 149:

     Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one.

   • 2010, Jennifer Gillan, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, page 16:

     Most often, when a series is marketed toward casuals, the loyals feel that their interests and needs are not being met.

   • 2018, E. J. Nielsen, "The Gay Elephant Meta in the Room: Sherlock and the Johnlock Conspiracy", in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities (ed. Joseph Brennan), page 91:

     Treating a gay relationship as a puzzle that must be pursued by the clever viewers and hidden from “casuals” until a narrative reveal at the eleventh hour seems antithetical to the idea of normalized representation that TJLCers claim as the main reason they want Johnlock to be canon, […]

7. (Britain, dated) A tramp.

Translations

Related terms

• casualty
• case

References

• casual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Calusa, casula, causal

Catalan

Adjective

casual (masculine and feminine plural casuals)

1. casual
2. unplanned

Derived terms

• casualitat
• casualment

Portuguese

Adjective

casual m or f (plural casuais, comparable)

1. casual (happening by chance)

   Synonym: fortuito

2. casual (coming without regularity)

   Synonym: ocasional

3. casual (designed for informal or everyday use)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

casual (plural casuales)

1. casual
2. accidental
3. coincidental, chance

Derived terms

• casualmente

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: kaswal

Further reading

• “casual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.