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Definition: CLAPS |
CLAPSTransitive verb1. Variant of Clasp |
Date "CLAPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: CLAPS |
| English words defined with "CLAPS": Shoulder clapper. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Multiple hand claps. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The American people watching us at home, with the help of all the commentators, can tell from who stands and who sits, and who claps and who doesn't, that there's still modest differences of opinion in this room. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CLAPS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 59.38% of the time. "CLAPS" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 59.38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (plural) | 34.38% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CLAPS": hand-claps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLAPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 拍手 (Clap, Clapped, Clapping). (various references) | ||||
German | klatscht (slaps). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 박수 (Applause, Clap, Clapping). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apsclay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CLAPS": afterclaps, thunderclaps. (additional references) | |
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"CLAPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callaps, Calpe, capsy, clads, clags, Clais, Clapci, Clapis, clapp, clapse, clapt, clars, clas, claup, claups, claus, clavpes, clept, clipse, Clipso, clipt, Clispa, collaps, hclas, Klas, Klasp, uclap. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLAPS" (pronounced kla"ps) |
| 4 | -l a" p s | collapse, elapse, flaps, laps, lapse, relapse, slaps. |
| 3 | -a" p s | caps, chaps, craps, gaps, maps, naps, perhaps, raps, saps, schnapps, scraps, snaps, straps, taps, traps, wraps, yaps, zaps. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clasp, scalp. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: alps, caps, clap, lacs, laps, pacs, pals, salp, slap. | |
-2 letters: alp, als, asp, cap, lac, lap, las, pac, pal, pas, sac, sal, sap, spa. | |
-3 letters: al, as, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: clamps, clasps, claspt, copals, pascal, places, placks, scalps. | |
+2 letters: alpacas, apicals, beclasp, caliphs, calpacs, calypso, capfuls, capless, caplets, caplins, capsule, carpals, carpels, chapels, clasped, clasper, copalms, copulas, cupolas, cypsela, enclasp, escalop, inclasp, palaces, parcels, pascals, paschal, placers, placets, plaices, plasmic, plastic, psalmic, reclasp, scaleup, scallop, scalped, scalpel, scalper, scapula, scopula, spacial, spackle, spancel, special, specula, spicula, unclasp, upscale. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 50 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- .--. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 0050 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3746355053 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, 중국 |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , 독일 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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