Clapping

Definition

clap 1 /klæp/ v ( -pp- ) ၁။ (က) လက္ခုပ္တီးသည္။ She clapped her hands in delight. ❍ They clapped their hands in time to the music. (ခ) ဩဘာလက္ခုပ္တီးသည္။ The audience clapped enthusiastically. ၂။ (က) ~ sb on sth ရင္းႏီွးစြာလက္ျဖင့္ ပုတ္သည္။ clap sb on the back. (ခ) (နဖူးကို) လက္ဝါးျဖင့္ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ‘Oh, dear!’ she cried, clapping a hand to her forehead. ၃။ ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ သြင္းသည္။ ခတ္သည္။ The police officer clapped the handcuffs on him and took him away. ❍ clap sb in prison. n ၁။ [sing] လက္ခုပ္တီးျခင္း။ လက္ခုပ္ဩဘာေပးျခင္း။ လက္ ခုပ္သံ။ The audience gave her a big clap at the end of the performance. ၂။ [C] ~ on sth ရင္းႏီွးစြာ လက္ျဖင့္ပုတ္ျခင္း။ give sb a clap on the back. ၃။ [C] ျဖန္းခနဲ ျမည္ေသာအသံ။ a clap of thunder. မိုးႀကိဳးပစ္သံ။ ❏ clapped out adj ( Brit infml ) ၁။ ေဟာင္းႏြမ္းစုတ္ျပတ္ ေသာ။ a clapped-out old bicycle. ၂။ ေျခကုန္လက္ပန္းက်ေန ေသာ။ ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ She was clapped out by the end of the day. ❏ clap sth on (sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တိုးျမႇင့္ေကာက္ခံသည္။ The government has clapped an extra ten pence on a packet of cigarettes. clap 2 /klæp/ (also the clap ) n [U] ( sl ) ေညာင္းက်ေရာဂါ။ ဂႏို ရီယာ။

Examples

1. At the end of the speech everyone clapped.
2. The children clapped their hands in excitement.
3. He had to clap his hands over his ears to shut out the noise.