(v. t.) To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.
(v. t.) To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.
(v. i.) To express approbation loudly or significantly.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(2) To dye for … England's Joe Hart applauds fans after the Costa Rica game; their response to his hair is not pictured.
(3) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
(4) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(5) Applauded off at half-time, Villa carried on where they left off and struck twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
(6) Having announced its first carbon target shortly before the conference , China's negotiators hoped the event would be a chance for the world to applaud the progress the country has made to improve efficiency and boost renewable energy.
(7) In 2012, politicians in the Welsh Assembly applauded its success in tackling financial exclusion in south-east Wales, noting that the most affordable credit alternative to MoneyLine required the borrower to pay back £82 for every £100 lent whereas MoneyLine charged between £19 and £35 for every £100 lent [link].
(8) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
(9) Daisy just wanted to work and whenever she got cast in anything we all applauded.” His student film-makers were really excited seeing her pop up on Casualty, he says; imagine how they will feel when they see her lead the new Star Wars film.
(10) But in Vietnam many white soldiers flagrantly applauded his murder.
(11) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
(12) The minister for culture, media and sport, Andy Burnham, was applauded when he told the crowd the 96 fans who died would never be forgotten.
(13) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(14) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
(15) Russia Aligned to the Warsaw Pact bloc Sometimes you just have to applaud Russia's diplomatic genius.
(16) This is the EU making clear that economic success is not to be applauded but to be punished.
(17) It is essential that the police build and maintain the confidence of ethnic and other minority communities, and I applaud their determination to do so.
(18) The senator was present at a vigil, later on Friday, when hundreds of people cheered and applauded at repeated calls for the flag to be removed from state buildings.
(19) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
(20) I was glad to receive some emails after the reversal applauding the decision as though all was forgiven and, I wondered, perhaps even soon to be forgotten.
Clap
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
(v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
(v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
(v. t.) To express contempt or derision.
(v. i.) To knock, as at a door.
(v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
(v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
(v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
(v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
(n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
(n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
(n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
(n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.
(n.) Noisy talk; chatter.
(n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
(n.) Gonorrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(2) Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system."
(3) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(4) When the news came through that all US personnel were uninjured, Manning's colleagues all cheered and clapped.
(5) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
(6) She excitedly described how all the women were singing and clapping as they waited together in a communal cell.
(7) The miner's wife, Siân James, is to his left, staring directly at him, clapping too, looking as though she cannot believe her eyes.
(8) "The two men high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes.
(9) The hour-long event at the gates of the city hall concluded with a two-minute "no silence" where participants whistled, shouted, clapped and played musical instruments.
(10) Bolt wrote: “(Note: part of the Q&A audience actually clapped Mallah.
(11) There's an extraordinary array of high performance models that can do almost anything, but there's also a lot of clapped-out old bangers from the former communist bloc that can leak, break down and possibly even explode.
(12) When you go out on stage and people clap you, that's a mood-altering experience.
(13) "The problem comes down to a whole range of clapped-out rules and arrangements.
(14) She might not clap that line but the truth is the audience know I’m being sincere in the fact I’m just literally saying what I think.
(15) The obtained CLAP values in five healthy subjects and five patients with chronic liver disease coincided well (r greater than 0.9994) with those generated by the use of an established method.
(16) My friends and I clapped,” said Rukhmini Puri, a history student, as she emerged with her friends from a cinema in Nehru Place in Delhi, the Indian capital.
(17) The protests were so effective at associating clapping with dissent that the traditional 3 July independence day military parade was held without applause with only the brass bands of the military puncturing the silence .
(18) The players came in last so that we could clap them – and then he came.
(19) The orchestra plays a march and they accompany with clapping and stamping."
(20) Eubank Senior’s clapping grew more insistent as the crowd began to boo, rightly so.