(n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
(pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) He accused Republicans who have called the package wasteful and badly targeted as ideologically blinkered and of being obstructive without offering an alternative vision.
(2) We were wilfully blinkered, probably, on the exact details of this last point.
(3) I'm like a horse on the racecourse with the blinkers on.
(4) As those familiar with my novels know (especially Ulverton and Hodd ), I've always believed in the modernity of the past, from which our temporal conceit blinkers us.
(5) The lawyers who argued against the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday urged the court to a definition of marriage more elegant than the blinkered "insert-tab-A-into-slot-B" logic of the anti-equality crusaders.
(6) "George Osborne is, in a blinkered way, carrying on regardless of what people know is the reality.
(7) Non-Indigenous Australia’s emotional nexus with the land – with its roots in masculine pioneering stories and blinkered notions of benign settlement, and for all its subsequent embodiment in the over-mythologised, stylised story of Anzac – is already stretched with the emergence of each new urban generation.
(8) The stupidity of the blinkered, religiously motivated agenda on display here is that no matter what legislation these men implement, they will never succeed in banning abortion, per se, only safe, legal abortion.
(9) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(10) I am a resident and I am a mother, and of course I am concerned about health risks, but the anti-frackers are absolutely blinkered.
(11) Yes, the Tories historically haven’t exactly been that gay-friendly but unless you’re so blinkered to the fact that parties and individuals can change, then you’ll have noticed how David Cameron has been hugely successful in leading his party to a position where there is scarcely a tissue paper between the position of his party compared to the other two on gay issues,” he wrote.
(12) General secretary John Smith says he has sympathy for the FAC's attitude but thinks its campaign "a bit blinkered" and "counterproductive".
(13) Is it preferable to put on blinkers, seek out a desert island hideaway and pretend the World Cup is not happening?
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) Watford’s speed of thought and foot was such that Newcastle’s fading centre-half played like a man wearing blinkers.
(16) The Treasury has always been at its most comfortable counting the candle ends: by rescinding this loan ministers have shown that the blinkered, short-termist, anti-industry mind set of the 1980s is back with a vengeance.
(17) "His is a narrow nationalism that prays for Tory success so that he can convince people that the only way to get rid of the Tories is to get out of the UK … Have you ever heard such a selfish, self-serving, narrow-minded blinkered piece of nonsense?"
(18) Blinkering the horizons of children must be wrong wherever they learn.
(19) Aspinall said: "She was one in a long line of people who had blinkers on about what the families were fighting for, the injustice of the inquest, and in preventing us going forward."
(20) Meanwhile, says Dotcom, an aggressive and outdated approach in Hollywood blinkers them from the potential to build a new business model around the internet.
Trafficator
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
(5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
(9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
(11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
(13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
(14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
(15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
(17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
(18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
(20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.