ape 
ape (āp)
noun
- any gibbon or great ape
- loosely any Old or New World monkey
- a person who imitates; mimic
- a person who is uncouth, gross, clumsy, etc.
Etymology: ME < OE apa; akin to Ger affe < Gmc *apan, prob. < OSlav opica
transitive verb aped, ap′·ing
to imitate or mimic
go ape
Slang to become mad; also, to become wildly enthusiastic
ape
n.
Object
- style: TV Go Home A fake TV listings which apes the style of the TV Times and their ilk very well.
Converse of object
- go: Link Honolulu Zoo Going Ape Over Contributions Going ape over contributions.
- save: GRASP is the first internationally co-ordinated initiative to save the great apes.
- increase: Highlights for the twelve months include: New protection APE increased by 54 % to £ 69.4 million ( £ 45.1m 2002 ).
Adjective modifier
- anthropomorphous: In the adult male anthropomorphous apes, as Rutimeyer ( 77.
- hairless: The two rodents had made the mistake of stopping under a tree inhabited by those pesky hairless apes.
- naked: But there is another flaw within ` naked ape ' type arguments.
- giant: A giant ape fighting with a giant mechanical robot ape.
- fossil: Its teeth and jaws are very similar to those of older fossil apes.
- great: To us, the demise of the last great ape of Asia would be a global tragedy.
Modifies a noun
- rescue: This adorable little bundle is the latest member to join the family at Monkey World ape rescue center at Wool, near Wareham.
- conservation: Sales of their ground breaking new wildlife reference book, Animal, will generate much needed funds for great ape conservation.
- sale: APE sales for the first nine months of 2005 were £ 16 million, up 33 per cent on the same period of 2004.
- specie: But you must make your case on the basis of human sexuality and aggression themselves, NOT by appealing to other ape species.
- suit: I now found myself facing an enormous ape, or at the very least a man wearing an ape suit.
- population: Exactly the same proportion of alpha males that naturalists find in ape populations.
Modifying Another Word
- still: If we come from apes why are there still apes?
- just: However, Roth doesn't just ape the horror movies he loves.
Noun used with modifier
- orang-utan: Voluntary work with animals - Orang-utan Conservation Another gravely endangered species is the orang-utan ape - the only great ape found outside of Africa.
- annuity: Fixed index annuity APE sales of £ 13 million were down 7 per cent on the same period of 2005.
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapeötribalismandinquisitiveness.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the old crow loves his fledglings, and the ape his cubs.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. 528
How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
The question is this: is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.
And Jesus and a nameless ape Collide and share the selfsame shape That nocht terrestial can escape?
I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to SirThomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann.
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
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