Difference between Clack and Clap

What is the difference between Clack and Clap?

Clack as a verb is to make such a sound while Clap as a verb is to strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

Clack

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to make such a sound to chatter

Part of speech: noun

Definition: an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk chatter

Clap

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.(always as “the clap”) Gonorrhea.(Yorkshire dialect) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.To applaud.To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).To set or put, usually in haste.

Example sentence: Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

We hope you now know whether to use Clack or Clap in your sentence.

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