TO GIVE POINTS

  

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TO GIVE POINTS

Definition: TO GIVE POINTS

TO GIVE POINTS

1. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: TO GIVE POINTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-o-o-p-s-t-t-v"

-3 letters: petitions, poetising, pointiest, tiptoeing.

-4 letters: goopiest, nepotist, oviposit, petition, pettings, pittings, pivoting, positing, position, positive, potstone, sopiting, spitting, spittoon, spotting, stooping, stotinov, topstone.

-5 letters: egotist, epigoni, epigons, eviting, gentoos, gooiest, goonies, ignites, inosite, invites, isogone, isotone, isotope, options, peising, petting, pietist, pigeons, pingoes, piniest, pinites, pintoes, pitting, pointes, poising, posting, potions, potties, potting.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-o-o-p-s-t-t-v"
 

+3 letters: prognosticative.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GIVE POINTS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 49 56 45      50 4F 49 4E 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 0049 0056 0045      0050 004F 0049 004E 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492414356392504943485453

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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