tiếng vỗ tay, vỗ tay

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'tiếng vỗ tay' thường được dùng để chỉ hành động vật lý, trong khi 'sự tán thưởng' mang nghĩa trừu tượng hơn về sự công nhận.

• A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!
• Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. […] It was at such moments that for an instant he [Sherlock Holmes] ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.

tán dương

To applaud.

ℹ Từ này mang sắc thái cổ điển hoặc trang trọng, khác với nghĩa hiện đại của 'applaud' là vỗ tay tán thưởng.

• But (which had ſcarrefide our wounds, if wounded, with the Balme / Of her ſweete Preſence, ſo applaus’d as in Sea-ſtormes a Calme) / Her royall-ſelfe, Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene, / In magnanimious Maieſtie amidſt her Troupes was ſeene.
• Now Ahab ſees the ground of that applauſed conſent of his rabble of Prophets: […]