blind

/blaɪnd/

意味: 目の見えない

例文: ALX-9000 walked into a wall—again. Blind mode on.
　　  ALX-9000はまた壁に突進。盲目モード発動中。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: blind spot(死角), blind date(ブラインドデート), blind faith(盲信)

定義: 目が見えない、視覚がない状態を指します。また、情報や知識が不足しているために、物事を正しく理解できないことも意味します。物理的に目が見えない場合や、比喩的に何かを見落としている場合に使われます。

blindは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
Noun: a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
Noun: a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
Noun: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
Verb: render unable to see
Verb: make blind by putting the eyes out
Verb: make dim by comparison or conceal
Adjective: unable to see; –Kenneth Jernigan
Adjective: unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
Adjective: not based on reason or evidence

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The artist created a stunning portrait of a blind musician.(そのアーティストは盲目の音楽家の素晴らしい肖像画を描いた。)
He stumbled around, feeling like a blind man in a maze.(彼は迷路の中の盲人のようにふらふらと歩いた。)
The committee aims to improve accessibility for blind individuals in public spaces.(委員会は公共の場で盲人のためのアクセシビリティを向上させることを目指している。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he spent hours reading to the blind
Noun: he waited impatiently in the blind
Noun: they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Noun: he wasn’t sick–it was just a subterfuge
Noun: the holding company was just a blind
Verb: The criminals were punished and blinded
Adjective: 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
Adjective: blind to a lover’s faults
Adjective: blind to the consequences of their actions
Adjective: blind hatred
Adjective: blind faith
Adjective: unreasoning panic

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): blind, dim, screen, subterfuge, unreasoning, unsighted

Antonyms(反意語): sighted

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, darken, misrepresentation, people, protective covering, screen

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, age group, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, ancients, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, armor, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, baffled, barb, barbarize, bell jar, benight, bestialize, better, bill of goods, binder, binding, blind, blister, blood, blunt, blur, boil, bracer, brave, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, business people, calcify, camouflage, camp, cap, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, chosen people, circularize, civilize, clarify, class, classicize, clean, clear, clientele, cloche, clot, cloud, coarsen, coaster, coevals, cohere, cold frame, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, crystal, customize, damage, damned, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden, deaf, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, defeated, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dim, dinge, dirty, disable, disabled, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, doomed, dope, draw, dry, dull, dun, dust cover, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, embrown, empty, emulsify, enable, end, enemy, episcopacy, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, evasion, even, exaggeration, excite, extend, exteriorize, facade, faceplate, facing, fallboard, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, finger plate, fix, flatten, flocculate, folk, fraudulence, free, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, half-truth, harmonize, harshen, heat, heat shield, homebound, hood, housing, hue, humanize, humble, humbug, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, initiate, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lining, liquefy, living, lobby, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mask, mechanize, mentally retarded, migration, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mulch, murk, mythologize, nation, nationality, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, network army, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overcast, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, peanut gallery, peoples, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, pocket, poison, polarize, politicize, poor people, populace, population, port, pretense, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rank and file, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remodel, restore, retreated, revolutionize, rich people, right, ripen, romanticize, roof, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, screen, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shadow, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, sheath, sheathing, shelter, shield, shift, shoji, shorten, sick, simplify, slenderize, smart money, smut, snow job, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, splashboard, splasher, sputter, stabilize, stain, stalking-horse, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, subterfuge, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, testudo, thicken, think, thumbstall, tighten, timid, toecap, tone down, touch, tradespeople, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, trickery, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, unconfessed, unemployed people, uniformize, uninitiate, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, washboard, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, womankind, worsen, wounded

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abacinate, curtain, dazzle, seel, shutter, snow-blind, window blind, winker

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: blind, blinder, blindness, screen

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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