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Handicap vs Border - What's the difference?

handicap | border |

As nouns the difference between handicap and border

is that handicap is something that prevents, hampers, or hinders while border is .

As a verb handicap

is to encumber with a handicap in any contest.

handicap

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
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  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • 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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  • (lb) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
  • A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
  • An old card game.
  • :(Samuel Pepys)
  • Derived terms

    * Benghazi Handicap

    Verb

    (handicapp)
  • To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
  • (by extension) To place at disadvantage.
  • The candidate was heavily handicapped .
  • To estimate betting odds.
  • 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.

    border

    English

    (wikipedia border)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outer edge of something.
  • the borders of the garden
  • * Bentham
  • upon the borders of these solitudes
  • * Barrow
  • in the borders of death
  • A decorative strip around the edge of something.
  • A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
  • The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
  • * 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)
  • The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
  • (British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
  • Derived terms

    * borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacing

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a border on something.
  • To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
  • Denmark borders Germany to the south.
  • To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
  • Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
  • To approach; to come near to; to verge.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
  • Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

    Derived terms

    * border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----