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Audio Help [eyp] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, aped, ap·ing.
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| 1. | any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape), which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape), which includes the gibbon and siamang. |
| 2. | (loosely) any primate except humans. |
| 3. | an imitator; mimic. |
| 4. | Informal. a big, ugly, clumsy person. |
| 5. | to imitate; mimic: to ape another's style of writing. |
| 6. | go ape, Slang. to become violently emotional: When she threatened to leave him, he went ape. |
| 7. | go ape over, Slang. to be extremely enthusiastic about: They go ape over old rock music. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE apa; c. OS apo, ON api, OHG affo (G Affe)]
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apelike, adjective
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n.
tr.v. aped, ap·ing, apes To mimic slavishly but often with an absurd result. See Synonyms at imitate. [Middle English, from Old English apa.] ap'er n. |
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ape
O.E. apa, from P.Gmc. *apan (cf. O.S. apo, O.N. api, Du. aap, Ger. affe), perhaps borrowed in P.Gmc. from Celtic (cf. O.Ir. apa) or Slavic (cf. O.Bohemian op, Slovak opitza), probably ult. from a non-I.E. language. The verb "to imitate" (1632) is implied in to play the ape (1579), and the noun sense of "one who mimics" may date from c.1230. Ape-man, hypothetical "missing link," is from 1879, in a translation of Haeckel. To go ape (in emphatic form, go apeshit) "go crazy" is 1955, U.S. slang. To lead apes in hell (1579) was the fancied fate of one who died an old maid.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| ape | |
noun | |
| 1. | any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all |
| 2. | someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn: copycat] |
| 3. | person who resembles a nonhuman primate [syn: anthropoid] |
verb | |
| 1. | imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior" |
| 2. | represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" [syn: caricature] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ape [eip] noun
a large monkey with little or no tail
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Main Entry: ape
Pronunciation: 'Ap
Function: noun
1 : MONKEY;especially : one of the larger tailless or short-tailed Old World forms
2 : any of the large tailless semierect primates (as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, orgibbon) that comprise two primate families (Pongidae and Hylobatidae) called also anthropoid, anthropoid ape
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APE audio, compression
A lossless audio compression algorithm from MonkeysAudio.
(2001-12-20)
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apE graphics
A graphics package from the Ohio Supercomputer Centre.
(1995-11-29)
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Ape
Ape\ ([=a]p), n. [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G. affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiad[ae], having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes. Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms. 2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. --Byron. 3. A dupe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Ape
Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aped; p. pr. & vb. n. Aping.] To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." --Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. --Burke.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Ape
an animal of the monkey tribe (1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21). It was brought from India by the fleets of Solomon and Hiram, and was called by the Hebrews _koph_, and by the Greeks _kepos_, both words being just the Indian Tamil name of the monkey, kapi, i.e., swift, nimble, active. No species of ape has ever been found in Palestine or the adjacent regions.
| Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
| APE acute pulmonary edema |
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