blind vs turning circle

blind

noun
  • A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. 

  • A player who is forced to pay such a bet. 

  • Any device intended to conceal or hide. 

  • Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. 

  • No score. 

  • The blindside. 

  • A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind. 

  • A hiding place. 

  • A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. 

  • A blindage. 

adv
  • Without looking at the cards dealt. 

  • Absolutely, totally. 

  • Without seeing; unseeingly. 

  • As a pastry case only, without any filling. 

adj
  • Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias. 

  • Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit. 

  • Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless. 

  • Uncircumcised 

  • Unintelligible or illegible. 

  • Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless. 

  • Smallest or slightest. 

  • Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors. 

  • Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive. 

  • Without any prior knowledge. 

  • Of a place, having little or no visibility. 

  • Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc. 

verb
  • To make temporarily or permanently blind. 

  • 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. 

turning circle

noun
  • A place where a vehicle can turn and face in the opposite direction. 

  • The path followed by a vessel’s center of gravity when it makes a complete turn of 360° with a consistent rudder angle. (FM 55-501) 

  • The circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent. 

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