#applause

• Applause — Repeated clapping of hands as a sign of approval, admiration, gratitude, or enthusiasm toward an artistic performance, a political speech, or a remarkable achievement. A spontaneous or protocolic collective manifestation used in social and cultural environments to express public homage and the audience's structural appreciation toward a protagonist.
• Clap — To clap one's hands repeatedly to express approval, admiration, enthusiasm, or gratitude toward an artistic performance, a speech, an idea, or a remarkable achievement; figuratively, it represents the action of praising, warmly approving, supporting, or publicly eulogizing a decision, attitude, or social initiative.
• Applauses — The plural form of the feminine noun 'aplaudare'; it represents the repeated and successive collective manifestations through hand clapping, meant to express public approval, acclaim, or celebration of a merit or performance. The term emphasizes the multiplied character or successive stages of ovations offered by an audience during an event.
• Applauses — A graphical form or morphological variant for the plural of the neuter noun 'aplaos' or the feminine noun 'aplaudare', contextually used to denote hand clappings meant to express approval, admiration, or support. While current academic norms recommend the form 'aplauze', this structural variant appears in old literary texts or within certain dialectal areas of the Romanian linguistic domain.
• Applauses — A historical graphical and morphological variant used for the plural of the neuter noun 'aplaos' or derived directly from the root of the verb 'aplauda', utilized in 19th and 20th-century texts to denote hand clappings as a form of public appreciation. This structural form has been replaced in modern academic norms by the standardized variant 'aplauze', but remains an important reference in the study of Romanian theatrical and literary lexicon evolution.
• A round of applause — An alternative singular form, partially assimilated into daily language, used to denote a single act of showing approval or a single audible burst of hand clapping; although standard modern academic norms consider the plural 'aplauze' as the primary form used collectively, the singular form 'aplauz' is frequently encountered in theatrical or television jargon and fixed phrases to request an immediate reaction from the audience.
• Applause — The standard plural form of the neuter noun 'aplaos' or 'aplauz'; it represents the repeated and collective clapping of hands executed by a group of people to publicly express admiration, joy, enthusiastic approval, or homage toward a remarkable achievement. It is the standardized and most frequently used term in contemporary Romanian to describe the atmosphere of success in a performance hall.
• Deafening — Deafening, producing a noise of extreme intensity, strident, sharp, or tumultuous, which far exceeds the acoustic comfort threshold of the human ear. In an extended stylistic sense, it describes a phenomenon, success, or public reaction of overwhelming and undeniable scale.