blinds
Because it is a word with a single syllable, blinds is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofblinds
- 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.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- Any device intended to conceal or hide.
Example: "a duck blind"
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
- A blindage.
- A halting place.
- The blindside.
- (1800s) No score.
- A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
Example: "The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1."
- A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
Example: "The blinds immediately folded when I reraised."
- (as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.
Example: "Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?"
- To curse.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- 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.
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