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Definition of ape in English: apenounPlural apes eɪpeɪp 1A large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons. Families Pongidae and Hylobatidae Example sentencesExamples - The London zoo has an extensive collection of birds, small mammals, bears and hippos, and apes and monkeys.
- Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.
- Fermenting fruit (high in sugars and calories) can be a significant source of energy for monkeys and apes.
- Most experts believe the unusual band of apes are giant chimpanzees that display gorilla-like behavior.
- In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon.
- Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
- Like humans, apes and monkeys have to live in complex social groupings in which guile is needed to get ahead or simply to survive.
- We already know that monkeys and apes have remarkable levels of intelligence.
- Chimpanzees and other apes have historically been separated from humans in classification schemes, with humans deemed the only living members of the hominid family of species.
- Previous animal work with apes, dolphins, and parrots followed the experimental control paradigm.
- Some scientists, he said, believe that even apes lack this capability.
- Orangutans are big apes, adult males can weigh over 80 kilograms and spend about 80% of their waking hours feeding their bulk.
- Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans are all different species of apes.
- Scientists believe that the two branches of primates - apes and humans - diverged five to eight million years ago and evolved along separate paths.
- Gorillas are the largest and most powerful of the apes.
- In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds.
- He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
- Some apes, such as gorillas, showed no self-recognition whatsoever.
- Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear.
- Humans share more than 98 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, making the ape the closest living relative to Homo sapiens.
- Displays of deep caring and empathy across the generations are common in gorillas, and in the other African apes (chimpanzees and bonobos) as well.
- Like other primates, these apes exhibit humanlike qualities - from careful parenting to the use of tools.
Synonyms primate, simian monkey technical anthropoid - 1.1 Used in names of macaque monkeys with short tails, e.g. Barbary ape.
Example sentencesExamples - The Celebes Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra) is also known as the Crested Black Macaque, Sulawesi Crested Macaque, or the Black 'Ape'.
- Barbary apes live in Morocco and north Algeria.
- There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
- 1.2 (in general use) any monkey.
Example sentencesExamples - You seem to be wary of anthropomorphising apes.
- However, the real stars of this circus are the animals, which include nine tigers, three lions, five bears, six apes, four horses and some 20 dogs of various species.
- After all, our two species are different, no matter how anthropomorphic the apes from the advert appeared.
- ‘There was talk of computer generated apes,’ he reports.
- Generally all the apes are endangered and vulnerable.
- Safari World's general manager insists that all his apes were acquired through the proper channels, or bred in captivity.
2An unintelligent or clumsy person. Example sentencesExamples - Parker and his pal see people as, more or less, apes: dumb simians driven by instinct to act like total and utter idiots.
- Comparing primates to humans makes apes of us all.
- The million or so who voted for the party last year aren't all knuckle-dragging racist apes.
- If so why is she drooling over this ape of a man who is so Neanderthal, he can't string more than two words together.
Synonyms lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel 3archaic An inferior imitator or mimic. cunning is but the ape of wisdom Example sentencesExamples - It is not God, but the Ape of God that speaks here.
- If unskilfully and casually treated, it will be but the ape of nature.
- Prejudice, according to such an account of it, is the ape of reason
Synonyms copier, copyist, emulator, follower, mimic, plagiarist, parrot, echo
verbapes, aping, aped eɪpeɪp [with object]Imitate (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way. new architecture can respect the old without aping its style Example sentencesExamples - By aping the West, children and their parents were jeopardising their health, said paediatricians.
- Some may even be cheap knock-offs, made in imitation of the originals by later peoples who didn't understand the theory, and just aped the outside trappings.
- Startled women tend to mimic those around them, aping relatives or imitating things they see on TV.
- The massive star of the new movie King Kong, which opens today, effectively apes real gorillas.
- I think the reason that they top the whole Douglas franchise is that they're aping adventure flicks of the '30s, and fairly well, at that.
- The guy's just aping his mentors, ill-equipped to blaze his own path.
- On the other hand, I've lost count of the number of bands I've seen blatantly aping the sound of the moment.
- This was the reason why some of the Western observers had paid such attention to the Russian political groups which, in their appearance and through the use of symbols, aped the German Nazi.
- Most of the show's highlights came from Dennis, particularly when he aped the walk of a vicious flesh-eating dinosaur from Jurassic Park.
- Becoming less self-obsessed, learning from failures and aping successful people's body language works as well in the boardroom as the singles bar.
- They admit that aping the president was at first a touchy subject.
- Unlike others of their age, they are not addicted to Western music, nor are they blindly aping any trend as a shortcut to fame.
- But the Birmingham group is not just aping the capital; it has identified its own priorities, based on interviews with 3,000 people.
- It was there that he and academic colleagues researched high performance pattern-matching by aping the electronic impulses in the brain.
- A growing number of women are now aping the worst excesses of binge-drinking men.
- While many current outfits have aped the sound and mastered the beat, the space that the original funk outfits offered has often been lacking.
- Not even a professional actor could have aped her shock when I accused her of committing a criminal act.
- In the grand process of liberating herself, she only ends up aping the male.
- Incidentally, the kids are only aping the behaviour they witness in real life.
- When he first started trying to make music, he aped American hip-hop and went nowhere.
Synonyms imitate, mimic, copy, do an impression of, echo, parrot take off, mock, parody, caricature informal send up archaic monkey
Phrases informal Become very angry or excited. your kids will go ape over these frozen pops! Example sentencesExamples - When the reactionaries saw that issue they went ape.
- Aileen is played by Charlize Theron in a performance that everybody's going ape over, and it's easy to see why.
- He went ape when he netted against his former club ten minutes from time after he flicked the ball up with his left foot and rammed it into the net with his right.
- In a desperate bid to regain his ascendancy he threatened their actual incomes; and the party room went ape.
- It was a hit, but people didn't exactly go ape over it.
- He will go ape and beat his opponents down.
- Kelly went ape, ridiculed such a notion and sent the man packing from his premises.
- Barney brought Ronnie over and the fans went ape.
- Charlie went ape, he hurled the planter at the lounge door, the wood splintered, cracked.
- Mind you, most of Europe went ape over the election, and it doubled my fun.
Synonyms mad, crazy, insane, out of one's mind, hysterical, beside oneself, frenzied, crazed, demented, maniacal, manic, frantic, wound up, worked up, raving, wild
Origin Old English apa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aap and German Affe. Until monkey came into the language in the 16th century, the Old English word ape applied also to monkeys. The verb use ‘to imitate unthinkingly’ was formed when ‘ape’ still meant ‘monkey’, and was suggested by the way that monkeys sometimes mimic human actions. The expression go ape is often thought to be a reference to the 1933 film King Kong, in which a giant ape-like monster goes on the rampage through New York, but the phrase is not recorded until quite a bit later: US newspaper reports from 1954 and 1955 both say that ‘go ape’ is current teen slang. The cruder version go ape shit is recorded from 1951.
Rhymes agape, cape, chape, crape, crêpe, drape, escape, gape, grape, jape, misshape, nape, rape, scrape, shape, tape Definition of ape in US English: apenounāpeɪp 1A large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons. Families Pongidae and Hylobatidae See also great ape, gibbon Example sentencesExamples - Gorillas are the largest and most powerful of the apes.
- In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon.
- Displays of deep caring and empathy across the generations are common in gorillas, and in the other African apes (chimpanzees and bonobos) as well.
- Like humans, apes and monkeys have to live in complex social groupings in which guile is needed to get ahead or simply to survive.
- Some apes, such as gorillas, showed no self-recognition whatsoever.
- Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
- The London zoo has an extensive collection of birds, small mammals, bears and hippos, and apes and monkeys.
- Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans are all different species of apes.
- He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
- Like other primates, these apes exhibit humanlike qualities - from careful parenting to the use of tools.
- Fermenting fruit (high in sugars and calories) can be a significant source of energy for monkeys and apes.
- We already know that monkeys and apes have remarkable levels of intelligence.
- Most experts believe the unusual band of apes are giant chimpanzees that display gorilla-like behavior.
- Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear.
- Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.
- Previous animal work with apes, dolphins, and parrots followed the experimental control paradigm.
- Scientists believe that the two branches of primates - apes and humans - diverged five to eight million years ago and evolved along separate paths.
- Humans share more than 98 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, making the ape the closest living relative to Homo sapiens.
- Some scientists, he said, believe that even apes lack this capability.
- Orangutans are big apes, adult males can weigh over 80 kilograms and spend about 80% of their waking hours feeding their bulk.
- Chimpanzees and other apes have historically been separated from humans in classification schemes, with humans deemed the only living members of the hominid family of species.
- In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds.
- 1.1 Used in names of macaque monkeys with short tails, e.g., Barbary ape.
Example sentencesExamples - Barbary apes live in Morocco and north Algeria.
- The Celebes Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra) is also known as the Crested Black Macaque, Sulawesi Crested Macaque, or the Black 'Ape'.
- There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
- 1.2 (in general use) any monkey.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘There was talk of computer generated apes,’ he reports.
- After all, our two species are different, no matter how anthropomorphic the apes from the advert appeared.
- You seem to be wary of anthropomorphising apes.
- However, the real stars of this circus are the animals, which include nine tigers, three lions, five bears, six apes, four horses and some 20 dogs of various species.
- Safari World's general manager insists that all his apes were acquired through the proper channels, or bred in captivity.
- Generally all the apes are endangered and vulnerable.
- 1.3 An unintelligent or clumsy person.
Example sentencesExamples - The million or so who voted for the party last year aren't all knuckle-dragging racist apes.
- If so why is she drooling over this ape of a man who is so Neanderthal, he can't string more than two words together.
- Comparing primates to humans makes apes of us all.
- Parker and his pal see people as, more or less, apes: dumb simians driven by instinct to act like total and utter idiots.
Synonyms lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel - 1.4archaic An inferior imitator or mimic.
cunning is but the ape of wisdom Example sentencesExamples - It is not God, but the Ape of God that speaks here.
- Prejudice, according to such an account of it, is the ape of reason
- If unskilfully and casually treated, it will be but the ape of nature.
Synonyms copier, copyist, emulator, follower, mimic, plagiarist, parrot, echo
verbāpeɪp [with object]Imitate the behavior or manner of (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way. new architecture can respect the old without aping its style Example sentencesExamples - In the grand process of liberating herself, she only ends up aping the male.
- Some may even be cheap knock-offs, made in imitation of the originals by later peoples who didn't understand the theory, and just aped the outside trappings.
- A growing number of women are now aping the worst excesses of binge-drinking men.
- On the other hand, I've lost count of the number of bands I've seen blatantly aping the sound of the moment.
- While many current outfits have aped the sound and mastered the beat, the space that the original funk outfits offered has often been lacking.
- Incidentally, the kids are only aping the behaviour they witness in real life.
- The massive star of the new movie King Kong, which opens today, effectively apes real gorillas.
- Most of the show's highlights came from Dennis, particularly when he aped the walk of a vicious flesh-eating dinosaur from Jurassic Park.
- Unlike others of their age, they are not addicted to Western music, nor are they blindly aping any trend as a shortcut to fame.
- Becoming less self-obsessed, learning from failures and aping successful people's body language works as well in the boardroom as the singles bar.
- Not even a professional actor could have aped her shock when I accused her of committing a criminal act.
- When he first started trying to make music, he aped American hip-hop and went nowhere.
- But the Birmingham group is not just aping the capital; it has identified its own priorities, based on interviews with 3,000 people.
- I think the reason that they top the whole Douglas franchise is that they're aping adventure flicks of the '30s, and fairly well, at that.
- This was the reason why some of the Western observers had paid such attention to the Russian political groups which, in their appearance and through the use of symbols, aped the German Nazi.
- Startled women tend to mimic those around them, aping relatives or imitating things they see on TV.
- It was there that he and academic colleagues researched high performance pattern-matching by aping the electronic impulses in the brain.
- By aping the West, children and their parents were jeopardising their health, said paediatricians.
- The guy's just aping his mentors, ill-equipped to blaze his own path.
- They admit that aping the president was at first a touchy subject.
Synonyms imitate, mimic, copy, do an impression of, echo, parrot
Phrases informal Express wild excitement or anger. your kids will go ape over these Popsicles! Example sentencesExamples - It was a hit, but people didn't exactly go ape over it.
- He went ape when he netted against his former club ten minutes from time after he flicked the ball up with his left foot and rammed it into the net with his right.
- In a desperate bid to regain his ascendancy he threatened their actual incomes; and the party room went ape.
- When the reactionaries saw that issue they went ape.
- Barney brought Ronnie over and the fans went ape.
- Kelly went ape, ridiculed such a notion and sent the man packing from his premises.
- Charlie went ape, he hurled the planter at the lounge door, the wood splintered, cracked.
- Mind you, most of Europe went ape over the election, and it doubled my fun.
- He will go ape and beat his opponents down.
- Aileen is played by Charlize Theron in a performance that everybody's going ape over, and it's easy to see why.
Synonyms mad, crazy, insane, out of one's mind, hysterical, beside oneself, frenzied, crazed, demented, maniacal, manic, frantic, wound up, worked up, raving, wild
Origin Old English apa, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aap and German Affe. |