What's the difference between claps and claws?

Claps


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Variant of Clasp

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.

Claws


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
  • (2) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.
  • (3) The carbohydrate compounds of the mucus of flask cells in the kidney of claw-frogs (Xenopus laevis) were studied by gold marked lectins (WGA, RCA, L, LCA, HPA, PNA).
  • (4) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
  • (5) The object of this study was to examine the effects of exogenous and endogenous prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on the sexual behavior of female South African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis.
  • (6) I used to love jumping into the mosh pit, then climbing back on stage with red claw marks all over my body."
  • (7) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
  • (8) Stable claws develop in animals housed on floors with soft surfaces or under restricted movement.
  • (9) A novel and important observation made is that the different caffeine treatments affected the staining by alizarin of both claws and bones in a qualitatively and quantitatively similar manner.
  • (10) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
  • (11) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
  • (12) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (13) Treatment utilized partial proximal phalangeal resection, with and without silicone single-stem implants, extensor hallucis longus tendon transfer to the great toe metatarsal, and interphalangeal joint arthrodesis, or tenodesis of the great toe to correct clawing.
  • (14) Tadpoles at stage 50 could regenerate toes and claws without defect, but in the later the regenerative capacity gradually declined by reducing the number of toes and claws and accompanied by malformation of skeleton as the stage proceeded.
  • (15) I am expert in navigating the systems, on clawing my way to some work and juggling the admin to stay in that work.
  • (16) Apart from plantar and palmar insensitivity which accounted for 17.91% and 17.24% of all deformities, the most frequent deformities were mobile claw hand 12.94%, plantar ulcers 10.78% and palmar ulcers 5.97% respectively.
  • (17) Then, just as the world starts to claw its way back to some kind of normality, they start kicking the props away.
  • (18) In medico cubital paralysis one must also cure the "cubital claw of the thumb".
  • (19) Bill Shorten has used the ALP conference to claw back some authority I Lenore Taylor Read more While the notion of a federal Icac has won support in the past from independents such Tony Windsor and senator Nick Xenophon, the major parties have shown a distinct lack of appetite for such a body.
  • (20) A claw amputation was performed because of the advanced destructive nature of the lesion.

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