From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ape \Ape\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ape \Ape\ ([=a]p), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}, {imitator}, {emulator}, {aper}]
3: person who resembles a non-human 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
APE A {lossless} {audio} {compression} {algorithm} from {MonkeysAudio}. (2001-12-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
apE A graphics package from the Ohio Supercomputer Centre. (1995-11-29)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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