What's the difference between applause and plaudit?

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.

Plaudit


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , has received plaudits from the cream of the liberal, American, political elite.
  • (2) Merkel has won international plaudits for her liberal, open-door policies.
  • (3) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
  • (4) By contrast, he offers no such plaudits for Ed Miliband.
  • (5) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
  • (6) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
  • (7) They need a reliable finisher, Wilfried Bony never having been satisfactorily replaced, but otherwise they are still the side that won so many plaudits last season and against City they showed it.
  • (8) When you go up from the Championship everyone says how great you are and you sit there and take the plaudits, so when the team goes down I’ll take the brunt of the blame,” said the Scot.
  • (9) Storehouse later sold BHS for £200m in 2000 to Green, and he quickly won plaudits for the speed with which he brought it back to profitability.
  • (10) Photograph: REX Shutterstock Nicky Morgan S ecretary of state for education and minister for women and equalities Morgan dramatically increased her majority at the election and she will keep both of her ministerial briefs, where she won plaudits especially for her rethink on equal marriage, which she had previously opposed.
  • (11) Benteke and the tireless Andreas Weimann take the plaudits for their four passes that pierced the Liverpool defence and saw the Austrian forward sweep home Benteke's exquisite back-heel.
  • (12) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
  • (13) Based on the 1968 Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner was not a box office or critical hit at the time but has gathered plaudits over the years.
  • (14) This year she won plaudits from fellow peers and disability activists alike over a series of trenchant interventions on the controversial welfare reform bill .
  • (15) The rolling news station had been winning plaudits but had its broadcast hours halved on Freeview, the platform on which it performs best.
  • (16) Koudera's departure comes after HTC generally won plaudits from reviewers for the design of its HTC One flagship phone, which uses an aluminium case; many preferred it over the Galaxy S4.
  • (17) Justaneyah's friend Samar Bedawi, who also drives her car around the Red Sea city of Jeddah, said the sentence undermined the king's speech, which had won plaudits from the international community.
  • (18) But that’s the case tonight, and Bradley, who got none of the plaudits or praise normally reserved for an upset victory over one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the history of the game, has made it clear that he’s out to take what he thinks is his.
  • (19) However, any plaudits he may receive from his reaction to the latest attacks are thought unlikely to convert into votes for the Socialist party, trailing third in the polls.
  • (20) Green won plaudits for quickly bringing it back to profitability.

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