(n.) 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.
(n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
(n.) A dupe.
(v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Example Sentences:
(1) In recent studies, we have found that Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc residues are abundant on red cells and nucleated cells of nonprimate mammals, prosimians, and New World monkeys, but their expression is diminished in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.
(2) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(3) Other differences in cytoarchitecture, within the great apes and humans, include decreases in the small and giant cell populations of the cochlear complex.
(4) In order to analyse possible mechanisms of N-action of these factors, we have cultured APE explants for 3 or 18 h in the medium containing various concentrations of con A, PHA of EBDNF.
(5) We are by far the most successful of the great apes and have pushed our cousins right up against the wall.
(6) Finally, the M. fuscata replication sequence presented here will provide a necessary foundation for future comparisons between apes and man.
(7) Miocene hominoids from Europe are among the earliest members of the great ape and human clade (the Hominidae).
(8) 4-[[N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-carbamoyl]oxy]-2-butynyltrimethylammonium chloride (McN-A-343) and N-ethyl-guvacine propargyl ester (NEN-APE) produced minimal or no arteriolar vasodilation.
(9) Gibbons that acquired infectious gibbon ape leukemia virus, either naturally by exposure to a virus-shedding ape or experimentally by deliberate virus inoculation, had the same levels of serum lytic activity as did unexposed gibbons that had no detectable antibodies to gibbon ape leukemia virus.
(10) After this separation, the ancestral DRB1 gene of the DRw52 group duplicated in the Old World monkey lineage to give rise to genes at three loci at least, while in the ape lineage this gene may have remained single and diverged into a number of alleles instead.
(11) The results conform to the general pattern that great apes exhibit many cognitive skills comparable to those of 2-year-old humans.
(12) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(13) Relative to human, no translocations were detected in great apes, except for the well-known fusion-origin of human chromosome 2 and a 5;17 translocation in the gorilla.
(14) Replacement of the N-methyl group in arecoline and APE by larger substituents (ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, benzyl, phenylethyl) as well as N-methylation resulted in a decrease or even a complete loss of agonistic activity.
(15) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(16) She had no idea what she was saying.” The girl, Julia, was escorted from the ground by security guards after she was identified by Goodes as having called him an “ape” .
(17) Gonococci attached to, damaged, and invaded the oviduct (fallopian tube) mucosa of chimpanzees (which are apes) but not the oviduct mucosa of baboons (which are monkeys).
(18) The TLC analysis indicated that the oligomer produced by APE is not identical to the 2'-5' oligoadenylate.
(19) All positive sera from gibbon apes reacted as HSV-1 positive.
(20) Little evidence exists that apes can use symbols as names, that is, as a means of simply transmitting information.
Copycat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The CIA sent a cable to its foreign stations warning of possible copycat incidents.
(2) Pegida marches and copycat events in other cities attracted thousands of people, but they were vastly outnumbered by tens of thousands of counter-demonstrators insisting Germany is a multicultural country that welcomes immigrants.
(3) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
(4) But like BBC1’s The Voice - since lost to ITV - one person’s distinctiveness is another person’s copycat.
(5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
(6) She said the measures in SB2305, the copycat bill similar to the one being challenged by the CRR in Mississippi , were unnecessary, because the RRWC had a safety record above the national average.
(7) His tips include avoiding copycat shows, keeping it authentic, getting the casting right with lots of personalities and heroes, and incorporating emotion.
(8) The Norway attacks have raised concerns copycat operations may take place in Europe .
(9) The primary goal here is to reassert the rule of law and try to avoid copycat occupations,” said David Hayes, a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School and former deputy secretary of the US Department of the Interior.
(10) "Most of those who were involved were arrested and it stopped any further copycat rioting."
(11) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
(12) However, this attack is later revealed to be no copycat operation and one that had been months and probably years in the planning.
(13) · Meanwhile, don't respond too harshly if coverage of the election, or of anything else for that matter, is a bit sparse in the New York Times, since the entire staff at the paper's head office in Manhattan seem to have been completely distracted from their work by two stuntmen climbing their new skyscraper - the famous French "urban climber" Alain Robert, and a copycat.
(14) "My criticism of the Met police is the message that this sent out and it was the fundamental cause of copycat violence in a number of other cities."
(15) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
(16) The Global Times newspaper described the incidents as "plotted copycats" of the riots in Lhasa in March 2008.
(17) "I don't think Bristol really does copycat riots, I think we tend to start the riots.
(18) "Years of mass production and copycat trends have created a huge yearning for truly personal style and looks, without the boundaries of supposed perfection."
(19) Italians fearful of copycat Chinese imports killing off demand for their prized homegrown delicacies have added another culinary touchstone to the danger list: the chestnut.
(20) Officials at the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said under-reporting of incidents involving female abusers was a concern and warned that "copycat" abusers may attempt to replicate the abuse that took place at Plymouth's Little Ted's nursery, where George worked.