Definizione monolingua

clap

clap (third-person singular simple present claps, present participle clapping, simple past and past participle clapped)

1. To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

   The children began to clap in time with the music.

2. To applaud.

   The audience loudly clapped the actress, who responded with a deep curtsey.

   It isn’t the singers they are clapping, its the composer.

3. To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.

   He would often clap his teammates on the back for encouragement.

4. To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.

   He clapped the empty glass down on the table.

   She clapped the book shut.

   He clapped across the floor in his boots.

5. To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).

   We should clap together a shelter before nightfall.

   The rival factions clapped up a truce.

6. To set or put, usually in haste.

   The sheriff clapped him in jail.

   She was the prettiest thing Id ever clapped eyes on, she was.

clap (plural claps)

1. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.

   He summoned the waiter with a clap.

2. The explosive sound of thunder.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

3. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.

   She shut her diary with a loud clap.

   Off in the distance, he heard the clap of thunder.

4. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.

   His fathers affection never went further than a handshake or a clap on the shoulder.

Definizione dizionario clap

	applaudire
	To applaud by clapping the hands

battere

applauso

armeggiare

battere le mani

battimano

colpire

colpo

duellare

fervere

frullare

pacca

pettegolare

picchiare

picchiarsi

pulsare

sbaragliare

sbatacchiare

sbattere

sbattersene

scalcagnare

schiaffeggiare

sconfiggere

stravincere

Altri significati:

The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together

A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.

Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.

To applaud.

(Yorkshire dialect) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, p 188

The explosive sound of thunder.

To set or put, usually in haste.

The gonorrhea

The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.

To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.

To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.

(slang, with '''"the"''' ) Gonorrhea.

To strike the palms of the hands together

To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).