Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word APPLAUD

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Definitions of APPLAUD

1. (obsolete) Applause; applauding.
2. (obsolete) Plaudit.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

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Examples of Using APPLAUD in a Sentence

• Her surfing skills were so impressive that people would gather on the beach to applaud her performance.
• Ivanova leads Sheridan to the Zocalo, where the residents applaud Sheridan's decision to have Babylon 5 take a stand against Clark.
• But my true friends will see that the style of my symphony is precisely Mozartian classicism and will value it accordingly, while the public will no doubt just be content to hear happy and uncomplicated music which it will, of course, applaud.
• Yet as Zadie Smith notes,

  People continue to manage this awesome trick of wrestling sentiment away from TV's colonization of all things soulful and human, and I would applaud all the youngish Americans—Franzen, Moody, Foster Wallace, Eggers, Moore for their (supposedly) small but, to me, significant triumphs.

• Grimes's plan backfires when Homer's derivative model wins the contest and, when Homer's co-workers applaud rather than ridicule him, Grimes has a nervous breakdown and runs amok in the plant, mocking Homer's habits by imitating them.
• This was very much welcomed by many far-sighted supporters of the Lawson Tait and has encouraged many lay people, not necessarily involved in the anti-vivisection scene, to applaud and support the HRT.
• Just before kick-off the BoIS players unfurled a banderole which got the large crowd to applaud the away team in a very rare manner.
• Robert Hilburn wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Pink's reinvention (and its potential commercial impact) was initially questioned, but was later "a move industry observers now applaud as brilliant".
• WCT also strongly encouraged the audience to cheer for players, rather than politely applaud, as the more staid tennis audiences had done before.
• Both the Mystery team and spectators appear deflated until Burns claps, after which even the Rangers players applaud them.
• A date is set, state leaders around the globe applaud the United States for its initiative, there are standing ovations in the United Nations General Assembly, and all countries with the exception of North Korea agree to grant overflying rights to U.
• Hosts of the stations Ke-Buena, Los 40 Principales and Bésame Mucho, which broadcast from the same building, also gathered there to applaud the journalist's work.
• rising to applaud particularly witty, succinct, sarcastic, or relevant toasts, unless following the example of the President.
• In February 2018, Gidley said that Trump was speaking "tongue-in-cheek" when he said it was "treasonous" for Democrats not to applaud him during the State of the Union address.
• El Cronista Comercial reviewed the film, writing the following about the close: "At the end in a quite objectionable scene, Tita Merello sings a tango and the film ends with a photograph of Gardel, there are many spectators who applaud".
• All who had any share in this concert, finding the company attentive, and in a disposition to be pleased, were animated to that true pitch of enthusiasm, which, from the ardour of the fire within them, is communicated to others, and sets all around in a blaze; so that the contention between the performers and hearers, was only who should please, and who should applaud the most!.
• Michiko Kakutani praised Race Matters, writing in The New York Times "one can only applaud the ferocious moral vision and astute intellect on display in these pages", though she criticized his proposed solutions to racial problems as 'vague and sentimentally utopian'.
• Of the series's characters, Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning Herald found an "elegance to the performances", going on to further applaud the "gentle, engaging, emotional dynamics" of the characters interactions with each other that also managed to both "enhance its charm and believability at the same time".
• Ferrara published it in Il Foglio, of which he was editor, on the same day (9 October 2003) in which it would have appeared in the French newspaper, which came on newsstands in the evening; Ferrara said that he was happy to have reached the goal of getting that article before Le Monde newspaper, and introduced it with the words "Applaud me, I managed to steal an article from Le Monde".
• While many applaud Gordon-Reed for highlighting previously marginalized historical figures, others, like historian David Waldstreicher, have suggested that this focus might overshadow other important aspects of Jefferson's life and times.

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