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handicap
[ han-dee-kap ]
noun
- a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- the disadvantage or advantage itself.
- any disadvantage that makes success more difficult:
The main handicap of our business is lack of capital.
- Sometimes Offensive. a physical or mental disability making participation in certain of the usual activities of daily living more difficult.
verb (used with object)
- to place at a disadvantage; disable or burden:
He was handicapped by his injured ankle.
Synonyms: , , ,
Antonyms: , ,
- to subject to a disadvantageous handicap, as a competitor of recognized superiority.
- to assign handicaps to (competitors).
- Sports.
- to attempt to predict the winner of (a contest, especially a horse race), as by comparing past performances of the contestants.
- to assign odds for or against (any particular contestant) to win a contest or series of contests:
He handicapped the Yankees at 2-to-1 to take the series from the Cardinals.
handicap
/ 藞丑忙苍诲瑟藢办忙辫 /
noun
- something that hampers or hinders
- a contest, esp a race, in which competitors are given advantages or disadvantages of weight, distance, time, etc, in an attempt to equalize their chances of winning
- the advantage or disadvantage prescribed
- golf the number of strokes by which a player's averaged score exceeds the standard scratch score for the particular course: used as the basis for handicapping in competitive play
- any physical disability or disadvantage resulting from physical, mental, or social impairment or abnormality
verb
- to be a hindrance or disadvantage to
- to assign a handicap or handicaps to
- to organize (a contest) by handicapping
- to attempt to forecast the winner of (a contest, esp a horse race)
- to assign odds for or against (a contestant)
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 苍辞苍路丑补苍诲顎僫路肠补辫顎 noun
- 辞顎卾别谤路丑补苍诲顎僫路肠补辫顎 verb (used with object) overhandicapped overhandicapping
- 辫谤别路丑补苍诲顎僫路肠补辫顎 noun verb (used with object) prehandicapped prehandicapping
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of handicap1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of handicap1
Example Sentences
Players do not have to be a club member to acquire a handicap which can then be used at any course in the world.
Some clearly display handicapped plaques as they go to the store.
That would leave her free to run in 2027, though with the handicap of a conviction for misuse of public money.
鈥淓ven where the stores are located has been a handicap for them in terms of broadening their appeal,鈥 Beahm said.
She has a PhD in maths, is a former concert pianist and has an impressive golf handicap of just seven.
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