Shutters vs. Blinds — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Shutters and Blinds
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Shutters
A hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.
Blinds
Unable to see with the eyes; sightless.
Shutters
A mechanical device of a camera that controls the duration of a photographic exposure, as by opening and closing to allow light coming through the lens to expose a plate or film.
Blinds
Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
Shutters
Shutters(Music) The movable louvers on a pipe organ, controlled by pedals, that open and close the swell box.
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Blinds
Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
Shutters
To furnish or close with shutters
Locked the doors and shuttered the windows.
Blinds
Performed or made without the benefit of background information that might prejudice the outcome or result
Blind taste tests used in marketing studies.
Shutters
To cause to cease operations; close down
Shuttered the store for the holiday.
Blinds
Performed without preparation, experience, or knowledge
A blind stab at answering the question.
Shutters
Plural of shutter
Blinds
Performed by instruments and without the use of sight
Blind navigation.
Blinds
Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
Blind to a lover's faults.
Blinds
Not based on reason or evidence; unquestioning
Put blind faith in their leaders.
Blinds
(Slang) Drunk.
Blinds
Lacking reason or purpose
Blind fate.
Blind choice.
Blinds
Incompletely or illegibly addressed
Blind mail.
Blinds
Hidden from sight
A blind seam.
Blinds
Screened from the view of oncoming motorists
A blind driveway.
Blinds
Secret or otherwise undisclosed
A blind item in a military budget.
Blinds
Closed at one end
A blind socket.
A blind passage.
Blinds
Having no opening
A blind wall.
Blinds
Immoderate or unrestrained
Blind rage.
Blinds
(Botany) Failing to produce flowers or fruits
A blind bud.
Blinds
(used with a pl. verb) Blind people considered as a group. Used with the
A radio station for reading to the blind.
Blinds
Often blinds Something, such as a window shade or a Venetian blind, that hinders vision or shuts out light.
Blinds
A shelter for concealing hunters, photographers, or observers of wildlife.
Blinds
Something intended to conceal the true nature, especially of an activity; a subterfuge.
Blinds
A forced bet in poker that is placed before the cards are dealt.
Blinds
Without seeing; blindly.
Blinds
Without the aid of visual reference
Flew blind through the fog.
Blinds
Without forethought or provision; unawares
Entered into the scheme blind.
Blinds
Without significant information, especially that might affect an outcome or result
“When you read blind, you see everything but the author” (Margaret Atwood).
Blinds
(Informal) Into a stupor
Drank themselves blind.
Blinds
Used as an intensive
Thieves in the bazaar robbed us blind.
Blinds
To deprive of sight
Was blinded in an industrial accident.
Blinds
To dazzle
Skiers temporarily blinded by sunlight on snow.
Blinds
To deprive of perception or insight
Prejudice that blinded them to the proposal's merits.
Blinds
To withhold light from
Thick shrubs blinded our downstairs windows.
Blinds
Plural of blind
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