8 definitions
for APE
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ape \Ape\ ([=a]p), n. [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G.
affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]
1. (Zool.) 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.
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Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus
monkey of India, and allied forms.
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2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of
the ape); a mimic. --Byron.
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3. A dupe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they
have never tried. --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
ape
n 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,
imitator, emulator, aper]
3: person who resembles a non-human primate [syn: anthropoid]
v 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]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "ape":
Barbary ape, Cape polecat, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Primates,
Rodentia, act, act a part, act as, act out, angwantibo,
anthropoid ape, ape about, appear like, approach, approximate,
aye-aye, baboon, bar, be like, be redolent of, bear,
bear resemblance, bring to mind, bugs on, burlesque, call to mind,
call up, capuchin, caricature, cavy, chacma, chimp, chimpanzee,
come close, come near, compare with, conformist, coon, copier,
copy, copycat, copyist, correspond, counterfeit, counterfeiter,
cracked on, crazy about, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, do,
drill, echo, echoer, echoist, emulate, enact, entellus, evoke,
faker, favor, ferret, follow, forger, foumart, freaked-out,
gaga over, gibbon, glutton, gone on, gorilla, groundhog, guenon,
guereza, guinea pig, hanuman, hedgehog, hepped up over, hipped on,
hit off, hit off on, hot about, hypocrite, imitate, imitator,
impersonate, impersonator, impostor, langur, lemur, look like,
macaque, mad about, make like, man, mandrill, marmoset,
masquerade as, match, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mirror, mock,
mocker, mockingbird, monk, monkey, mountain gorilla, mousehound,
near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, nuts about, nuts on,
opossum, orang, orangutan, pantomime, parallel, parody, parrot,
partake of, pass for, perform, personate, phony, plagiarist, play,
play a part, polecat, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, porcupine,
pose as, poseur, possum, prairie dog, pretend to be,
proboscis monkey, quill pig, raccoon, remind one of, resemble,
rhesus, rival, saki, savor of, seem like, sheep, simulate,
simulator, skunk, smack of, sound like, stack up with,
starry-eyed over, steamed up about, suggest, take after, take off,
take off on, travesty, turned-on, weasel, whistle-pig, wild about,
wolverine, woodchuck, zoril
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :
APE
APplication Engineering
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
APE
A lossless audio compression
algorithm from MonkeysAudio.
(2001-12-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
apE
A graphics package from the Ohio Supercomputer
Centre.
(1995-11-29)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
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.
