(1) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(2) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(3) Purified boveine growth hormone labeled enzymatically with iodine-125 was covalently coupled to cyanogen bromide activated Sepharose 4B gel and to diazotized zirconia-clad glass beads.
(4) He then shows his strength and holds off Blind and a couple of orange-clad players.
(5) We have rather iron-clad information from sources in both the Arab world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States and in fact they helped create the resolution in the first place,” Keyes said.
(6) While BoKlok houses have a limited choice of colour and cladding types, Persimmon's Space4 arm has come up with more than 1,000 different CAD-designed timber-frame house types.
(7) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
(8) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
(9) Each subject, lightly clad, was required to remain for 30 min in a room at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees C followed by a 30 min period in a cold room at 4 degrees C. A month later, control tests were carried out at a constant 25 degrees C temperature for 1 h in the same subjects.
(10) A series of perfusion experiments presents evidence that microtubules localized in the clad are directly associated with the membrane excitability.
(11) Clad in a bright red Newroz dress, Fatma's other daughter, Nilgün, listened intently to Öcalan's message.
(12) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
(13) Many "photo-bombed" their opponents: rainbow-clad individuals leaped into the foreground as marriage equality opponents lined up snapshots.
(14) Plain lead missiles and those partially clad with copper often leave traces of lead along their paths, while those that are completely copper clad do not.
(15) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
(16) It’s not about promoting it to lycra-clad riders.
(17) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(18) Earlier this week, more than 14,000 people – including a baby boy born in a mud-clad tent to a Syrian refugee on Sunday – were caught in limbo as a result of the border closures.
(19) In a research study I conducted exclusively into the everyday citizenship experiences of burqa-clad Muslim women, the results revealed a widespread sense of personal insecurity and societal disempowerment.
(20) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
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.