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Audience vs Applauseometer - What's the difference?

audience | applauseometer |

As nouns the difference between audience and applauseometer

is that audience is hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening while applauseometer is a device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.

audience

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
    • When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
  • A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
    We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
  • A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
  • The readership of a book or other written publication.
  • A following.

    • Usage notes

    * In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.

    Synonyms

    * * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowd

    Derived terms

    () * intended audience * target audience

    Related terms

    () * audition

    External links

    * (wikipedia "audience") ----

    applauseometer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * applausometer

    Noun

  • (informal, US) A device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.
  • * 1989 , Nov.–Dec., , volume 78, ? 2, page 24
    • Its four-color animation board has message capabilities, angled lenses for easy daytime viewing, and an applauseometer , which measures the crowd’s Longhorn-cheering levels.
  • * 2000 : Marshal Scott Younger, The Great Kidsboro Takeover , page 93 (Review and Herald Publishing Association; ISBN 0828014272, 9780828014274)
    • Again, there was scattered applause. I looked into the crowd at Nelson. He told me he was bringing a new invention — an applauseometer — to the debate.
  • * 2001 : Stanley Marcus, Quest for the Best , page 27] ([http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=227 University of North Texas Press; ISBN 1574411373, 9781574411379)
    • Is the best measurable? If so, by what kind of instrumentation? Certainly not by an “applauseometer ,” as used to record the volume of applause on the “Major Bowes Amateur Night Talent” shows during the heyday of radio. I know of no universal empirical devices, but I do believe that the best is discernible to the observant eye.

    Synonyms

    * clapometer