What's the difference between applauding and applause?

Applauding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Applaud

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.

Applause


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
  • (2) Iranians have represented culture & civilization for millennia.” At the Oscars, Ansari read Farhadi’s message to the audience’s applause.
  • (3) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
  • (4) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
  • (5) Doing the decent thing has guaranteed them an avalanche of applause when next they play at Goodison - in blue or red."
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frank Lampard acknowledges the applause of fans as he enters the field to warm up.
  • (7) The prime minister didn’t look entirely comfortable with the levels of applause his chancellor was getting.
  • (8) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
  • (9) Abbott and McDonnell won applause by opposing the privatisation of public services while David Miliband defended the principle of third sector providers being able to provide some health services.
  • (10) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
  • (11) But there was much applause for Ken Loach , another surprise victor, this year of the Jury Prize (which ranks just below the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix).
  • (12) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
  • (13) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
  • (14) Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change,” the pope said, decrying a system that “has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.“ “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable The Earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable,” he said in an hour-long speech that was interrupted by applause and cheering dozens of times.
  • (15) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
  • (16) There is a ripple of applause and the odd cheer each time.
  • (17) "I got my constitution here," he said to a round of applause.
  • (18) So should you," he shot back, earning laughs and applause.
  • (19) To applause, she warned that the UK government should be under no illusions over the decisions that would be made.
  • (20) Atlético’s supporters had broken into spontaneous applause for their team as soon as Bale put Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead, and the ovation did not stop even when the game ran away from them and the score started to feel like a deception.

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