Curtain vs. Blinds

Curtainnoun

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

Blindsnoun

window coverings, especially vertical blinds, wood blinds, roller blinds, pleated blinds.

Curtainnoun

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

Curtainnoun

(theater) By extension, the beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

‘He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.’;

Curtainnoun

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

Curtainnoun

Death.

Curtainnoun

(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

Curtainnoun

A flag; an ensign.

Curtainverb

To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

Curtainverb

(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

Curtainnoun

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

Curtainnoun

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

Curtainnoun

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

Curtainnoun

A flag; an ensign; - in contempt.

‘A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.’;

Curtainverb

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

‘So when the sun in bedCurtained with cloudy red.’;

Curtainnoun

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Curtainnoun

any barrier to communication or vision;

‘a curtain of secrecy’; ‘a curtain of trees’;

Curtainverb

provide with drapery;

‘curtain the bedrooms’;

Curtain

A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background.Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light.