plaud-, plaus-, plod-, plos- (Latin: applause, to clap, strike, beat, to clap the hands).Originally a theatrical word applied to an actor, meaning to drive him off the stage by making noise; drive out, reject: to drive off (the stage) by clapping. By extension, to drive out with violence and sudden noise, and then the sense of to go off with a loud noise, as a bomb does. "The change of the Latin diphthong au to long o is due to dialectal influence." by Ernest Klein (New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1967). applaud:
1. To clap the hands in expression of approbation; hence, to express approval in any loud or lively manner.
2. To express agreement with; assent to a thing as worthy of praise. applause:
1. Approbation loudly expressed; acclamation.
2. Demonstrative approbation, marked approval or commendation. complose:
Clapped together, put together.
displode:
1.To drive out or discharge with explosive violence.
2. To burst with a noise; to explode; hence disploded, disploding. displosion:
Explosive discharge.
explode:
1. . To clap and hoot (a player, play, etc.) off the stage; hence, generally to drive away with expressions of disapprobation; to cry down; to banish ignominiously.
2. To reject with scorn; such as, an opinion, proposal, custom. 3. Driven forth with violence and sudden noise. 4. To blow up or burst with a sudden release of chemical or nuclear energy and a loud noise. 5. To burst like a bomb or shatter into many pieces, or cause something to burst or shatter. 6. To appear or start as suddenly and forcefully as an explosion. exploder:
1. One who rejects (a doctrine, etc.); one who denies the existence of (something).
2. Something which bursts with a loud noise. explosible:
That which is capable of exploding; a contrivance that can cause an explosion; such as, exploding gunpowder, gas, etc.
explosive:
1. Capable of exploding, or likely to explode.
2. Happening or appearing suddenly and dramatically. explosion:
1. The action of treating with scorn, rejecting (a notion, system, etc.); rejection.
2. The action of driving out, or of issuing forth, with violence and noise; an instance of the same. 3. The action of going off with a loud noise under the influence of suddenly developed internal energy; an instance of this; also used in reference to electric discharges or to a boiler, bomb, gun, etc. The action of suddenly bursting or flying in pieces from a similar cause. explosive:
Tending to drive something forth with violence and noise.
explosiveness:
The quality of being explosive; tendency to explode.
implode, imploding:
1. To burst inwards.
2. To collapse inwardly with force, as a result of external pressure being greater than the internal pressure, or to cause something to collapse inwardly. implosive, implosively:
Indicating or relating to violent inward collapse.
implosion:
1. The bursting inward of a vessel or structure from external pressure that is greater than the internal pressure.
implosive:
Indicating or relating to violent inward collapse.
inexplosive:
Not explosive; not liable to or capable of exploding.
plaudit, plaudits:
An act, or acts, of applauding; a round of applause; a clapping of the hands, or other audible expression of approval or praise; hence, any emphatic expression of approval From Latin plaudite "applaud!" from plaudere, from the customary appeals to the audience made by Roman actors at the end of a play to show approval [sounds familiar even for today].
plaudite:
1. An appeal for applause at the conclusion of a play or other performance. Now only as Latin.
2. A round of applause (plaudit). plauditory:
Applauding, applausive, laudatory.
supplode:
To stamp with the feet.
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