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Definition: HANDICAPPING |
HANDICAPPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Handicap |
Crosswords: HANDICAPPING |
| Specialty definitions using "HANDICAPPING": PEDIATRIC DENTIST, pedodontis ♦ RACING SECRETARY AND HANDICAPPER. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | If you come down too heavily on the side of freedom, you risk handicapping the police, letting criminals run rampant. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "HANDICAPPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "HANDICAPPING" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baseball handicapping | 843 |
sports handicapping | 203 |
handicapping | 145 |
horse racing handicapping | 108 |
sport handicapping | 95 |
football handicapping | 69 |
horse handicapping | 66 |
golf handicapping | 61 |
horse race handicapping | 47 |
greyhound handicapping | 38 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HANDICAPPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ๅ้็ข (handicapped). (various references) | |
German | hindernd (detaining, embarrassing, hampering, impeding, incapacitating, stymieing). (various references) | |
Korean | ํธ๋""์บก์ ๋ถ์. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andicappinghay.(various references) | |
Swedish | handikapps. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"HANDICAPPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: handycaping, handycapping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HANDICAPPING" (pronounced ha"ndēka'ping) |
| 4 | -a' p i ng | backslapping, kidnaping, kidnapping, overlapping, Wiretapping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-h-i-i-n-n-p-p" | |
-4 letters: aphidian, chaining, chapping, chipping, handicap, pinching. | |
-5 letters: anhinga, capping, chiding, chining, dancing, daphnia, dapping, dipping, hagadic, handing, happing, hipping, inching, indican, napping, niching, nipping, paining, pandani, paphian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4E 44 49 43 41 50 50 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- -. -.. .. -.-. .- .--. .--. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010000 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A N D I C A P P I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004E 0044 0049 0043 0041 0050 0050 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)423548384337355050434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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