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adj 1: unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan [syn: blind, unsighted] [ant: sighted] 2: unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions" 3: not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic" [syn: blind, unreasoning] n 1: people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind" 2: a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind" 3: a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" [syn: blind, screen] 4: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: subterfuge, blind] v 1: render unable to see 2: make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded" 3: make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: blind, dim]

adj 1: closely related; "syllable to blessed syllable affined"- Wallace Stevens

adj 1: brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause [ant: nonaligned] 2: in a straight line; "pearly teeth evenly aligned"

adj 1: appointed to a post or duty; "assigned personnel"; "assigned duties" [ant: unassigned]

adv 1: in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind" 2: remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind" 3: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: behind, slow] 4: in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers" 5: in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills" [syn: behind, behindhand, in arrears] adj 1: having the lower score or lagging position in a contest; "behind by two points"; "the 8th inning found the home team trailing" n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

n 1: something that hinders as if with bonds v 1: stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?" [syn: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to] 2: create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, attach, bond] 3: make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women" [ant: unbind] 4: wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn: bind, bandage] 5: secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss] 6: bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn: oblige, bind, hold, obligate] 7: provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather" 8: fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie, bind] [ant: unbrace, unlace, untie] 9: form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen" 10: cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" [syn: constipate, bind]

adj 1: made or joined or united into one [ant: uncombined]

adj 1: not invading healthy tissue [ant: invasive] 2: not free to move about [ant: unconfined] 3: being in captivity [syn: captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed]

adj 1: clearly characterized or delimited; "lost in a maze of words both defined and undefined"; "each child has clearly defined duties" [ant: undefined, vague] 2: showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary; "hills defined against the evening sky"; "the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill" [syn: defined, outlined]

adj 1: done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses" [syn: designed, intentional] [ant: undesigned]

adj 1: unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval; "disinclined to say anything to anybody" [ant: inclined(p)]

n 1: a productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough, find] 2: the act of discovering something [syn: discovery, find, uncovering] v 1: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter] 2: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" [syn: detect, observe, find, discover, notice] 3: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" [syn: find, regain] [ant: lose] 4: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain] 5: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" [syn: find, feel] 6: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see] 7: get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" [syn: line up, get hold, come up, find] 8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [syn: discover, find] 9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover, find] 10: obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college" 11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [syn: rule, find] 12: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur] 13: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room" 14: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [syn: recover, retrieve, find, regain] 15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark" 16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" [syn: find oneself, find]

n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb] 2: the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee" 3: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork] 4: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation] v 1: press or grind with a crushing noise [syn: crunch, cranch, craunch, grind] 2: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: grate, grind] 3: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil] 4: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced 5: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute] 6: created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl" 7: shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

adj 1: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)] n 1: any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers 2: a female deer, especially an adult female red deer

n 1: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]

adj 1: (often followed by `to') having a preference, disposition, or tendency; "wasn't inclined to believe the excuse"; "inclined to be moody" [ant: disinclined] 2: at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane" [ant: horizontal, perpendicular, vertical] 3: having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared]

n 1: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]

n 1: someone who creates new things [syn: originator, conceiver, mastermind] 2: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" [syn: genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein] v 1: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate]

n 1: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" [syn: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous] 2: recall or remembrance; "it came to mind" 3: an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" [syn: judgment, judgement, mind] 4: an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century" [syn: thinker, creative thinker, mind] 5: attention; "don't pay him any mind" 6: your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces" [syn: mind, idea] 7: knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect" [syn: mind, intellect] v 1: be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by; "I don't mind your behavior" 2: be concerned with or about something or somebody 3: be in charge of or deal with; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements" [syn: take care, mind] 4: pay close attention to; give heed to; "Heed the advice of the old men" [syn: heed, mind, listen] 5: be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to; "Beware of telephone salesmen" [syn: beware, mind] 6: keep in mind [syn: mind, bear in mind] [ant: forget]

adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near- blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged] 2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: obtuse, purblind]

adj 1: (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" [ant: unrefined] 2: freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [syn: refined, processed] [ant: crude, unprocessed, unrefined] 3: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: polished, refined, svelte, urbane] 4: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant, graceful, refined] 5: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: neat, refined, tasteful]

v 1: put in the mind of someone; "Remind me to call Mother" 2: assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn: prompt, remind, cue]

n 1: the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)

v 1: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" [syn: fascinate, transfix, grip, spellbind] 2: attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks" [syn: magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind] 3: put into a trance [syn: entrance, spellbind]

adj 1: made efficient by stripping off nonessentials; "short streamlined meetings"; "a streamlined hiring process" 2: designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow; "a streamlined convertible" [syn: streamlined, aerodynamic, flowing, sleek]

adj 1: not assigned; "unassigned personnel" [ant: assigned]

v 1: untie or unfasten; "unbind the feet of this poor woman" [ant: bind]

adj 1: not confined [ant: confined] 2: free from confinement or physical restraint [syn: unconfined, unimprisoned]

adj 1: not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished; "an undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a vague uneasiness" [syn: undefined, vague] [ant: defined]

adj 1: lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all" [ant: kind] 2: deficient in humane and kindly feelings [syn: pitiless, unkind]

adj 1: not having a lining or liner; "a thin unlined jacket" [ant: lined] 2: smooth, especially of skin; "his cheeks were unlined"; "his unseamed face" [syn: seamless, unlined, unseamed]

adj 1: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed, crude] [ant: processed, refined] 2: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" [ant: refined]

adj 1: lacking a signature; "the message was typewritten and unsigned" [ant: signed]

v 1: reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn" [syn: unwind, wind off, unroll] [ant: roll, twine, wind, wrap] 2: separate the tangles of [syn: unwind, disentangle] 3: become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work" [syn: relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down] [ant: tense, tense up] 4: cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me" [syn: relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed] [ant: strain, tense, tense up]

n 1: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" [syn: wind, air current, current of air] 2: a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change" 3: breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him" 4: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness] 5: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint] 6: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath [syn: wind instrument, wind] 7: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn: fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind] 8: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding, twist] v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander] 2: extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist, curve] 3: arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" [syn: wind, wrap, roll, twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off] 4: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind] 5: coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch" [syn: wind, wind up] 6: form into a wreath [syn: wreathe, wind] 7: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift, wind]

n 1: women as distinguished from men

v 1: provide with a new binding; "The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it"