Handicap

Definition

handicap /'hændikæp/ n ၁။ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္။ အဟန္႔အတား။ In a job like this, lack of experience is no real handicap. ၂။ ႐ုပ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ (သို႔) စိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ခ်ဳိ႕ယြင္းမႈ၊ အားနည္းခ်က္။ Deafness can be a serious handicap. ❍ He strives hard to overcome his handicap. ၃။ ( sport ) (က) (အားကစားတြင္) အေက်ာေပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ (ခ) အသာေပးျခင္း။ အေက်ာ ေပးျခင္း။ အေက်ာ။ ၄။ (ေဂါက္သီး႐ိုက္ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္) အေက်ာ။ He's much better than I am—his handicap's 3 and I play off 11. v ( -pp- ) (esp passive) အဟန္႔အတားျဖစ္သည္။ be handicapped by a lack of education. ❏ handicapped adj ( sometimes offensive ) ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့ေသာ။ a mentally/visually handicapped child. ❏ the handicapped n [pl v ] မစြမ္းမသန္သူ။ a school for the physically handicapped. ❍ DISABILITY

Examples

1. Mental/physical/visual handicap
2. They told me that my lack of experience was a handicap.
3. [handicap to] : His wild past could be a handicap to his ambitions.
4. [handicap of] : Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly.