What does apê mean?

Definitions for apê
eɪpapê

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. apenoun

    any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

  2. copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, apernoun

    someone who copies the words or behavior of another

  3. anthropoid, apeverb

    person who resembles a nonhuman primate

  4. apeverb

    imitate uncritically and in every aspect

    "Her little brother apes her behavior"

  5. caricature, apeverb

    represent in or produce a caricature of

    "The drawing caricatured the President"

Wiktionary

  1. apenoun

    An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

  2. apenoun

    An uncivilised person.

  3. apeverb

    To behave like an ape.

  4. apeverb

    To imitate; mimic.

  5. apeadjective

    Wild; crazy.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. APEnoun

    Etymology: ape, Icelandish.

    I will be more newfangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    Writers report, that the heart of an ape worn near the heart, comforteth the heart, and increaseth audacity. It is true, that the ape is a merry and bold beast. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    With glittering gold and sparkling gems they shine,
    But apes and monkeys are the gods within. George Granville.

    Julio Romano, who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile nature of her custom: so perfectly he is her ape. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

  2. To Apeverb

    To imitate, as an ape imitates human actions.

    Etymology: from ape.

    Aping the foreigners in every dress,
    Which, bought at greater cost, becomes him less. Dryden.

    Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire!
    Ambitiously sententious! Joseph Addison, Cato.

ChatGPT

  1. ape

    An ape is a type of large primate that lacks a tail and is often ascribed with high levels of intelligence and sociability. This category of mammals includes various species such as gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos, along with humans. Apes are native to Africa and Asia, and they can walk on two legs or all fours. They mainly eat plants and small animals and usually live in social groups. They have a variety of sizes, ranging from the smaller gibbons to the much larger gorillas.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Apenoun

    a quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, 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

  2. Apenoun

    one who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic

  3. Apenoun

    a dupe

  4. Apeverb

    to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally

  5. Etymology: [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G. affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]

Wikidata

  1. Ape

    Apes are Old World anthropoid mammals, more specifically a clade of tailless catarrhine primates, belonging to the biological superfamily Hominoidea. The apes are native to Africa and South-east Asia. Apes are the largest primates and the orangutan, an ape, is the largest living arboreal animal. Hominoids are traditionally forest dwellers, although chimpanzees may range into savanna, and the extinct australopithecines were likely also savanna inhabitants, inferred from their morphology. Humans inhabit almost every terrestrial habitat. Hominoidea contains two families of living species: ⁕Hylobatidae consists of four genera and sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang. They are commonly referred to as lesser apes. ⁕Hominidae consists of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. Alternatively, the hominidae family are collectively described as the great apes. There are two extant species in the orangutan genus, two species in the gorilla genus, and a single extant species Homo sapiens in the human genus. Chimpanzees and bonobos are closely related to each other and they represent the two species in the genus Pan.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ape

    āp, n. a monkey: a monkey without a tail or with a very short one: a simian proper, linking man and the lower animals, and hence termed Anthropoid—gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, or gibbon: one who plays the ape, a silly imitator: (Shak.) an imitator in a good or neutral sense.—v.t. to imitate as an ape.—ns. Ape′dom; Ape′hood; Ap′ery, conduct of one who apes, any ape-like action: a colony of apes.—adj. Ap′ish, like an ape: imitative: foppish.—adv. Ap′ishly.—ns. Ap′ishness, Ap′ism (Carlyle).—God's ape, a born fool.—To lead apes in hell, believed to be the lot of old maids there; To make any one his ape, To put an ape in his hood (obs.), to make a fool of any one. [A.S. apa; Ger. affe.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ape

    The long-tailed shark. Also, an active American seal.

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  1. EAP

  2. EPA

  3. PAE

  4. pea

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of apê in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of apê in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of apê in a Sentence

  1. June Jordan:

    Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

  2. Simone Pika:

    We have regularly observed both species interacting peacefully in foraging trees. Our colleagues from Congo even witnessed playful interactions between the two great ape species.

  3. Martin Kuhlwilm:

    We have absolutely nothing in terms of bonobo fossils, there is one chimp fossil thats been unearthed thats maybe 400,000 years old, but thats basically it for African great apes. By analyzing living apes, we can get information on extinct ape populations that we cant get from ancient DNA, since there are almost no ancient ape fossils.

  4. Baltasar Gracian:

    At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

  5. Jean Baudrillard:

    Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

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