Definition of Clapping

1. Noun. A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together.

Exact synonyms: Applause, Hand Clapping
Generic synonyms: Approval, Commendation
Group relationships: Ovation, Standing Ovation
Specialized synonyms: Hand, Handclap, Round
Derivative terms: Clap, Clap

Definition of Clapping

1. Verb. (present participle of clap) ¹

2. Noun. The action by which someone or something claps. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clapping

1. clap [v] - See also: clap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapping

clapotage
clapped
clapped out
clapper
clapper board
clapper talk
clapper valve
clapperboard
clapperboards
clapperclaw
clapperclawed
clapperclawing
clapperclaws
clapperless
clappers
clapping (current term)
clappingly
clappings
claps
clapshot
clapt
claptrap
claptraps
claque
claquer
claquers
claques
claqueur
claqueurs
clarabella

Literary usage of Clapping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Medical and Orthopedic Gymnastics by Anders Gustaf Wide (1902)
"Chest-clapping should extend as far down as the chest goes, but not further. It can be given fairly hard on the back, but should be weaker in front and on ..."

2. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1789)
"and a man fitting on the column , clapping his hands , and uttering a loud exclamation. ... clapping ..."

3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... midst of your prayer, then stripping you of one vest, and clapping on a second during divine service, will be found out to have nothing in it. ..."

4. The new nation by John Morris (1880)
"... an air sung with clapping of hands. Hindu 746 Tip, raising the voice in singing. Hindu 725 Tappa, the name of a mode in music. Latin Tuba, heroic poetry ..."

5. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Practice of clapping the Hands and Dancing, used in their Worship.—Examples of Miriam, Jephthah, and David.—Scriptural Commands to clap the Hands, ..."

6. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"1 linger'd ; all within was noise Of songs, and clapping hands, and boys That crash'd the glass and beat tlie floor ; And all the framework of the land ..."

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