apes

Definition of apes in English English dictionary: plural of ape
Barbary apes: plural form of Barbary ape
ape: An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail
ape: Wild; crazy
He went ape when he heard the bad news.
great apes: plural form of great ape
naked apes: plural form of naked ape
ape: {v} to imitate as an ape, imitate, mimic
ape: {n} a kind of monkey, mimic, simpleton, fool
Ape: Acute Pulmonary Edema
Ape: any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
Ape: A group of applications designed to function across the entire enterprise (e g , SAP R/3)
Ape: person who resembles a non-human primate
Ape: represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"
Ape: Abbreviation for available potential energy
Ape: someone who copies the words or behavior of another
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
Ape: abbr Apterix
Ape: ape-like alien that looks a lot like the apes on Earth, only much bigger; up to 100 ft tall - called themselves the "Supreme Beings"; extremely intelligent and powerful - wanted to create the perfect body; responsible for creating many alien races
Ape: Adaptive Physical Education A specially designed physical education program for students who have difficulty meeting with success in the regular physical education program If student displays significantly delayed gross motor skills, i e , catching a ball, this skill would be developed through APE
Ape: Area of Potential Effect; geographical area established by the project team under Federal guidelines within which direct or indirect environmental effects could be expected to occur and to identify specific locations for further investigation and documentation (see also: section 4(f) )
Ape: "Area of Potential Effect" A term used in Section 106 to describe the area in which historic resources may be affected by a federal undertaking
Ape: Active Phasing Equipment
Ape: common & pygmy chimpanzees (bonobos), gorillas, orang-utans and gibbons [3: The Great Ape Project - links ]; [3: Ape man at BBC Online ]
Ape: imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior"
Planet of the Apes: a US film about a society in the future in which intelligent monkeys, who can speak, rule the world and control humans (1968)
Time of the Apes: Japanese television movie about a woman and two children who get trapped in a world belonging to apes
ape: If you ape someone's speech or behaviour, you imitate it. Modelling yourself on someone you admire is not the same as aping all they say or do. = copy, imitate. Any of the tailless, anthropoid primates of two families: Hylobatidae (the lesser apes: gibbons and siamangs) and Pongidae (the great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas). Apes are found in the tropical forests of western and central Africa and South Asia. They are distinguished from monkeys by having no tail, having an appendix, and having a more complex brain. Apes typically move about by swinging, and they tend to stand erect, occasionally walking on two feet. Highly intelligent animals, apes are more closely related to humans than are any other living primates. As a result of habitat destruction and hunting, all the apes are now regarded as endangered
ape: Apes are chimpanzees, gorillas, and other animals in the same family
ape: {i} monkey, simian
ape: An uncivilised person
ape: A quadrumanous mammal, esp
ape: {f} mimic, imitate
ape: To imitate
ape: The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes
ape: One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic
ape: The name is applied esp
ape: to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana
ape: To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally
ape: any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior
ape: of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches
ape: A dupe