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When a show, a song, or a talk finishes, people often hit their hands together — they clap — and sometimes they shout. That sound, from many people at once, is applause. It is how a crowd says they liked it, or well done. You hear it in a theatre, at a concert, after a speech, and at a sports match when something good happens. A round of applause is one burst of . Polite applause is that is not very warm: people are being nice, not . Writers also stretch it: if someone won applause, people praised them, even if nobody in the room actually clapped. Applause is a noun. The matching verb is : you a singer; the applause is the sound you make.
組成From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“to strike against, to applaud”), which also gives us applaud.
同家族的字
- applaudthe verb — to clap and praise; from the same Latin applaudō
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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applausenoun/əˈplɔːz/
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The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
- A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!
- Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. […] It was at such moments that for an instant he [Sherlock Holmes] ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.
applauseverb/əˈplɔːz/
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obsoleteTo applaud.
- But (which had ſcarrefide our wounds, if wounded, with the Balme / Of her ſweete Preſence, ſo applaus’d as in Sea-ſtormes a Calme) / Her royall-ſelfe, Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene, / In magnanimious Maieſtie amidſt her Troupes was ſeene.
- Now Ahab ſees the ground of that applauſed conſent of his rabble of Prophets: […]
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