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How to pronounce ape in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aper, copycat, emulator, imitator
Type of mortal, somebody, someone, soul, person, individual
Has types parrot, epigon, epigone
Type Words
Synonyms caricature
Type of mock
Type Words
Synonyms anthropoid
Type of misfit
Type Words
Type of primate
Has types anthropoid ape
Type Words
Type of imitate
Derivation aper, apery


Her little brother apes her behavior.

Examples of ape

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James Franco stars in this futuristic story of the battle between human and ape.
From the bostonherald.com
In all these films comparisons are made between our ape relatives and ourselves.
From the guardian.co.uk
Scientists say the Sumatran orangutan will be the first great ape to go extinct.
From the edition.cnn.com
And note that I only want to take my iPad and the APE, no laptop, on my travels.
From the gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
George A. Romero's deft thriller is the best ape movie since the 1933 King Kong.
From the time.com
So why did Ivanov want so badly to produce a baby that was half-ape, half-human?
From the newscientist.com
Dances a happy dance, promptly befriends the lead singer and exits one happy ape.
From the kentucky.com
Which brings us neatly to an ape that lived about 14 million years ago in Africa.
From the newscientist.com
The revamped management team might have better luck with efforts to ape Boeing.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
  • Imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior"
  • Caricature: represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"
  • Copycat: someone who copies the words or behavior of another
  • Anthropoid: person who resembles a nonhuman primate
  • An ape is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans. Due to its ambiguous nature, the term ape has been deemphasized in favor of Hominoidea as a means of describing taxonomic relationships.
  • Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.
  • Ape is a fictional mutant character in the .
  • Alocasia macrorrhizos is a species of flowering plant in the arum family, Araceae, that is is native to rainforests from Malaysia to Queensland and has long been cultivated on many Pacific islands and elsewere in the tropics. ...