ape
IPA: ˈeɪp
noun
- A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
- Any such primate other than a human.
- (derogatory) An uncivilized person.
- One who apes; a foolish imitator.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of alkylphenol ethoxylate.
verb
- (intransitive) To behave like an ape.
- (transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
adjective
- (slang) Wild; crazy.
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Examples of "ape" in Sentences
- Why a fit, tall & healthy female ape is not as attractive as a cover girl?
- 1 Due to its ambiguous nature, the term ape is less suitable as a means of describing taxonomic relationships.
- (#2: The giant ape is defeated after the woman he groped and stalked wins a multi-million dollar harassment suit.)
- Krause, as already commented at "The ape is on my father's side, mind you", regarding John Hawks, we are definitely into the "Post-Wedgin 'Away" era.
- May be they are veridical observations of some enormous rare ape mistaken for an ˜ape - man™ or may be just erroneous observations of sociopaths in Yak coats?
- A few other primates, such as the Barbary Ape, have the word ape in their common names usually to indicate lack of a tail, but they are not regarded as true apes.
- The project was started by the philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri, who argued that the ape is the closest genetic relative to humans — that it displays emotions such as love, fear, anxiety and jealousy — and should be protected by similar laws.
- Chuen of the Maya calendar, which corresponds to the day Ozomatli, the ape, in the Aztec calendar, seems to indicate that the singular head of C is that of an _ape_, whose lateral nasal cavity (peculiar to the American ape or monkey) is occasionally represented plainly in the hieroglyph picture.
- She answered, “This whom thou deemest an ape is a young man, a clever and polite, a wise and learned and the son of a King; but he is ensorcelled and the Ifrit Jirjaris, who is of the seed of Iblis, cast a spell upon him, after putting to death his own wife the daughter of King Ifitamus lord of the Islands of Abnus.”
- On the top of this tree, in among the branches, sat a monkey -- at least so Ailie called it; but the term ape or baboon would have been more appropriate, for the creature was a very large one, and, if the expression of its countenance indicated in any degree the feelings of its heart, also a very fierce one -- an exceedingly ferocious one indeed.
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