Hand Clapping

  

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Hand Clapping

Definition: Hand Clapping

Hand Clapping

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hand Clapping

Synonyms: applause (n), clapping (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Hand Clapping

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

One Hand Clapping (1974)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hand Clapping

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hand Clap! "Miss Mary Mack" and 42 Other Hand Clapping Games for Kids (reference)

  • One hand clapping : a memoir of childhood (reference)

  • The Sound of One Hand Clapping (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Hand Clapping".

PlayCaption
Light texture with hand clapping, cymbals, and arpeggiated electric bass line.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hand Clapping

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Professional education involves calling attention to (1) neonatal risk factors for hearing impairment (the HRC), (2) risk factors for acquired hearing impairment, (3) early behavioral signs of hearing impairment, and (4) the ineffectiveness of crude measures of hearing sensitivity such as hand clapping, which are useless and misleading. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hand Clapping

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

one hand clapping

8

sound of one hand clapping

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hand Clapping

Language Translations for "hand clapping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

andhay appingclay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hand Clapping

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-h-i-l-n-n-p-p"

-4 letters: canaling, candling, chaplain, chapping, clapping, dappling, handicap, handling, hangnail.

-5 letters: anginal, anhinga, capping, dancing, daphnia, dapping, hagadic, handing, happing, lancing, landing, lapping, napping, paginal, paladin, pandani, paphian, placing, planing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hand Clapping


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6E 64      43 6C 61 70 70 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000011 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#67 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0064      0043 006C 0061 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267807023778678282758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Sounds
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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