I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clap/crash/crack of thunder (= one extremely loud sound )
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Lightning flickered across the sky, followed seconds later by a loud crack of thunder.
an audience claps
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Most of the audience clapped but a few people jeered.
clap your hands
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They were singing and clapping their hands.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
back
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Malik clapped him on the back .
hand
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To me, butterflies are always the sound of one hand clapping .
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His hands were clapped to his face, and almost at once blood began trickling through his fingers.
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His face was livid, and his hand had clapped to his sword.
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Stop clapping with one hand , and start clapping with two hands at your own jokes.
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People say their hands hurt from clapping so much.
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A small boy in pajamas and socks wanders blearily behind his father, hands clapped over his ears.
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The sound of no hands clapping .
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The music is marked by sweeping melodies and rhythmic hand clapping .
people
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The melody swooped and split into two, harmonizing with itself. People clapped .
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There is little wonder that people clapped .
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A lot of people clapped and whistled.
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The people on the sidewalk clapped and then went away.
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Then some people stood up and clapped .
shoulder
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I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street.
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Jack clapped him on the shoulder .
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All around the smoking room, gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder .
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He clapped me on the shoulder .
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He clapped me on the shoulder , proclaiming I was a great fellow, before sweeping away to join the dancers.
■ VERB
laugh
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They laugh , and clap everything.
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All around the smoking room, gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set/lay/clap eyes on sb/sth
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Bedford disliked Halsey the minute he set eyes on him.
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How could she possibly know, since he had not set eyes on the girl?
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I bonded on the second night I laid eyes on Hyakutake.
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Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla, seven, for the first time.
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Never anywhere have I set eyes on such a one.
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No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary.
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A crowd gathered to watch the runners, clapping their hands and urging them on.
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Fans usually clap the batsman when he leaves the field.
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Mrs. Phillips clapped her hands and yelled at the dog to come inside.
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The audience clapped and cheered.
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The audience cheered and clapped as the curtain came down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His hands were clapped to his face, and almost at once blood began trickling through his fingers.
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I might jump up and clap my hands.
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Jack clapped him on the shoulder.
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Nutty got a glimpse of Gloria and Seb, jaws dropping, as everyone started to jeer and clap .
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The sound of no hands clapping.
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This measurement was for his new uniform, she assured him, while his colleagues wolf-whistled and clapped.
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Where Turtles us'd to clap their silken Wings.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
thunder
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The door slammed behind them like a thunder clap .
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In the distance, another thunder clap rolled, this one more muffled than its predecessors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a while the clapping died down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Check the responses after all the claps.
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I give her a clap and turn round.
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Some ten seconds later, we heard the clap of thunder.
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The thought of another dose of clap flashed across his mind.
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Under those trees no dragons could fly ... He heard the clap of wings before shadows folded around him.
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Witnesses recalled a clap of wood and the sight of Bailey plunging toward the ground, then his dangling body spinning hard.