Word Finder - handicap

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Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.

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Age is often a handicap.

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An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.

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A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.

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(sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.

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A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.

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(card game) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.

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To encumber with a handicap in any contest.

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(by extension) To place at disadvantage.

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The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.

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To estimate betting odds.

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Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.

I'd like to eliminate your handicap of life's tribulations and fund you.

Poor means of communication have always been a great handicap to the industries of the island.

With her, money was neither an advantage nor a handicap.

In addition, his eye trouble was becoming worse and was a severe handicap.

No plans to do any further studying, I'm concentrating on getting my golf handicap down!

The center has places for 50 young people with mental handicap.

Premierbet were the first company to offer Asian handicap betting online.

With that verbal curb stomp out of the way, I think it's safe to say that if they make another Area 51 in the same vein, it would have great potential if only they spent more time making it unique to counteract its audio/graphic handicap.

This experience will help you to handicap the information you receive from various fantasy football news websites.

Challenge Mode puts you into a handicap situation, where you get to select two of your favourite Dragon Ball Z characters, but you must face off against three enemies in a team battle.

It's important for visitors to know that Cascade Basin is not handicap accessible.

Many educators of the deaf now urge early compensatory programs in signed languages, because the deaf child shows no handicap in learning a visually based language.

Two to three children out of every 100 have a mental handicap, and those with IQs of 55 or lower may have a physiological reason for their delay.

When a motor delay exists with delays in other developmental areas, the child should be examined for visual impairment or mental handicap.

By the end of April, 330 mobility aids had been distributed by Handicap International.

Each player had bisques, their number calculated by deducting 14 from their handicap.

However, the minimum base we allow is 3 1/2, to avoid low handicap players receiving too many bisques!

I was getting ready to play Fred here, handicap 8 and my handicap is 9. So I got one bisque.

But the Shoreline Trail is a full bouncer that more than makes up for its weight handicap.

The results we achieved at the top end despite this handicap were extremely creditable.

They include handicap events, advanced events, golf croquet, short croquet, singles, doubles, you name it!

Summer handicap route changed and made exactly 5k.. Winter Handicap now based on club cross-country fixtures.

Loss of faculty can include disfigurement even when this causes no bodily handicap.

Facts and Tips some golf courses require proof of your handicap so ensure that you take your handicap certificate.

The FX9 Irons are an exceptionally forgiving club which offers mid to high handicap golfers more accuracy and feel.

Like in golf, you overcome a handicap to win the game.

Mads Korneliussen broke the tapes at the first time of asking, incurring a 15-metre handicap.

Handicap Races where the weight a horse has to carry is determined by the official handicapper.

Her work took her all around Devon supporting families with physical handicap problems e.g. multiple sclerosis.

One problem is that the pages are quite voluminous - which may be a handicap for someone searching for a specific piece of information.

The park is famous for its race-meetings, the principal fixture being the Jubilee Handicap, established in 1887.

Now, add to this cultural handicap some mildly autistic or schizoid tendencies such as I have and any intimate encounter becomes a challenge.

The exceptions to the rule have a very low handicap and are usually either pros or those that could be pros.

It can also be a severe handicap, however, if the deep sleep means that they cannot wake up in the morning.

The use of pasties to cover the areolas was the most noticeable change, but the addition of sequins, rhinestones, and tassels changed pasties from a handicap to an innovation.

You can search the website for hiking trails in New York according to difficulty, historic features, views, waterways, swimming, handicap accessibility, fees, camping, and whether public transportation is available to the hike or not.

Disability-An inability to do something others can do; sometimes referred to as handicap or impairment.

Children rely on their vision in their learning processes; if they have difficulty seeing this handicap affects academic performance.

Fall golf vacation packages are hard to resist regardless of your handicap.

The American Yoga Association's "Easy Does It" Yoga program, developed in the 1960s, is a yoga program specifically for those living with a physical handicap that restricts mobility.

Some websites are also available for specific people groups such as women or those struggling with particular physical challenges like diabetes or a mobility-related handicap.

These include improvements made to increase handicap accessibility or accommodate a resident's illness.

The real handicap of the western counties would be shown in comparing aggregate yields per given area; for much land is normally inarable.

The fact that its product is shut out of its natural markets, without gaining that of the United States, is also a great handicap. The civic status of the people is still unsettled, but there has been under American rule a notable advance in the well-being of the island.

Had still further economies been practised (in the Struma valley for instance) this handicap might have disappeared.

Compared with adjoining states - Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri - none shows a greater, if indeed any shows so great an average value per acre in the yield of Indian corn, wheat, oats, barley and rye; and this despite the assumed handicap of the western half of the state.

Of all the cane grown, an amount between one-sixth and one-quarter - and that the best - must be reserved for seed every other year, and this is a great handicap to the state in competing with other cane regions and with the sugar beet.

However, they minimized this handicap by joining league to league; in 1381 the Swabian and the Rhenish cities formed an alliance for three years, while the Swabian League obtained promises of help from the Swiss.

In spite of this handicap Alcibiades, who had been seized and imprisoned by Tissaphernes at Sardis but effected his escape, achieved a remarkable victory over the Spartan Mindarus at Cyzicus (about April 410).

Taking a detached view of Turkish civilization, even of the faith of Islam itself, for the two are inseparable - the Committee saw much wanting, much existing that was cumbersome and useless, much that provided a fatal handicap to the progress of the Ottoman State.