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How to pronounce “handicap”
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Pronunciation guide for handicap
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of handicap with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- AI’s Single Point of Failure
as a choke point to handicap China's AI capabilities.
- Definition summary
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
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How to pronounce handicap
AI’s Single Point of Failure
as a choke point to handicap China's AI capabilities.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “handicap”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- (sports) 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.
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- 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.
- (obsolete, uncountable, card games) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”).
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To place at disadvantage.
- To estimate betting odds.
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