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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"text": "As its name suggests, BSW can detect traffic in a vehicle’s side blind spots and alert a driver to its presence. ― SUV and Truck Buyers May Pay Thousands More for Life-Saving Feature, CR Study Shows, Keith Barry, Consumer Reports, August 24, 2023",
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"word": "زاوِية مَيِّتة"
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"word": "angle mort"
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"word": "слепа́я зо́на"
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"text": "Our seats turned out to be in a blind spot behind a pillar blocking our view on the stage.",
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"text": "He loves her so much that he has a blind spot when it comes to her faults.",
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"ref": "2021 November 12, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Nov 12, 2021",
"text": "\"It's possible he has a blind spot I am unaware of, but I would be astonished if your father's attitude came from a place of bigotry. Where I can easily see it coming from is ignorance, confusion... and being your father.\"",
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"ref": "2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Obviously, the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s could be pretty factional as well; there were vicious internal fights over issues like lesbianism and pornography, as well as over white feminists’ blind spots about race.",
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"roman": "ondhobindu",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "অন্ধবিন্দু"
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"code": "br",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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],
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"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
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"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punt cec"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "盲點"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mángdiǎn",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "盲点"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "slepá skvrna"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "sokea piste"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "point aveugle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tache aveugle"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blinder Fleck"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "vakfolt"
},
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caochspota"
},
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"alt": "もうてん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mōten",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "盲点"
},
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"alt": "盲點",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "maengjeom",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "맹점"
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"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"word": "titik buta"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
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"word": "plamka Mariotte'a"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ponto cego"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slepóje pjatnó",
"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"neuter"
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"word": "слепо́е пятно́"
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "spot dall"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"sense": "place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina",
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"code": "afb",
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"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"feminine"
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"word": "زاوية ميتة"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"word": "盲點"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "mángdiǎn",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "angle mort"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "toter Winkel"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punto cieco"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "angolo morto"
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"alt": "もうてん",
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"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"word": "盲点"
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"word": "titik buta"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"masculine"
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"word": "dødvinkel"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "blindsone"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "martwe pole"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ponto cego"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slepája zóna",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "слепа́я зо́на"
},
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spot dall"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "punto ciego"
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen",
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"common-gender"
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"word": "död vinkel"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "inability to recognize a fact or think clearly",
"word": "盲點"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mángdiǎn",
"sense": "inability to recognize a fact or think clearly",
"word": "盲点"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "inability to recognize a fact or think clearly",
"word": "sokea piste"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "inability to recognize a fact or think clearly",
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"sense": "inability to recognize a fact or think clearly",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "Blindheit"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "subject beyond one’s certain knowledge",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "location with poor radio service",
"word": "katve"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "location with poor radio service",
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"feminine"
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"word": "zone blanche"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "location with poor radio service",
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"neuter"
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"word": "Funkloch"
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],
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"blind spot"
],
"word": "blind spot"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.