(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.
Shudder
Definition:
(v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
(n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(3) We need only look at Holland, Belgium or Denmark, and shudder.
(4) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
(5) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
(6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(7) I shudder to think what will happen when that glue is no longer there, but we rally round and put our differences aside.
(8) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(9) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
(10) I could feel her breath shuddering through her body.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump supporter sucker-punches black protester at rally We cannot know, and I shudder to think, how deeply these influences have conditioned public consciousness.
(12) "It wouldn't have mattered if banks hadn't been gross risk-takers, this way of doing business would still have come to a shuddering halt.
(13) The goalkeeper shudders at the memory of his appearance on RTL's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?
(14) Four patients who were injected with 10 mg or more experienced fever, shudder and vague abdominal and articular pain.
(15) One side of the sports hall backs on to classrooms, which shudder when balls hit its walls; the other adjoins music rooms.
(16) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
(17) On the journey the man begins to convulse, his body shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
(18) I don’t feel too jolly in most shops, so shudder to think how the poor staff feel.
(19) No significant difference existed among these three groups of patients with respect to the over-all incidence of carotid shudders or with respect to the incidence of coarse or fine shudders.
(20) Beteta's words will not trouble British tourists practising their golf swing or soaking up the sun on Andalucía's Mediterranean beaches, but they must have produced shudders in Brussels – and on the international bond markets that now view Spain as the biggest threat to the euro.