(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.
Ope
Definition:
(a.) Open.
(v. t. & i.) To open.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anthropological structure of this residence, is characterised by a polar buffer between openess and privacy.
(2) oPES was cleaved after lysyl residues using endoproteinase Lys-C and the hydrolysate was fractionated in 2 steps by reverse-phase HPLC.
(3) The dihedral angle of OPC is shown to be more variable than that of OPE.
(4) The synthesis and high-pressure liquid chromatographic purification of the homogenous nonionic surfactant p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenoxynonaoxyethylene glycol (OPE-9) in quantities suitable for membrane solubilization studies is reported.
(5) The OpE sequences were shown to increase gene expression from the Autographa californica MNPV delayed early p39 promoter independently of position or orientation, and were also shown to increase expression from the promoter of the OpMNPV immediate early gene, IE-2.
(6) To mark the occasion, UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , published an OpEd today titled Women’s Role in the Next 50 Years – the Africa We Want .
(7) The OpMNPV enhancer (OpE) consists of a 66-bp element that is tandemly repeated partially or completely 12 times.
(8) We studied plasma and overnight peritoneal effluent (OPE) from 20 CAPD stable patients.
(10) Keys for that observation were the differential binding affinities of CCK and a phenethyl ester analogue of CCK (OPE), with the high affinity state binding CCK with higher affinity than OPE, and the low affinity state binding OPE with higher affinity than CCK.
(11) However, unlike the wild-type his3 gene, whose transcripts are initiated about equally from two different sites (+1 and +12), transcription due to the ope mutations is initiated only from the +12 site, ope-mediated transcription is regulated in a novel manner; it is observed in minimal medium, but not in rich broth.
(12) Adenylate energy charge (AEC) was slightly decreased in the OPE 3 h + water group and significantly decreased in the OPE 22 h + water group than in the corresponding sham group.
(13) (1) Non-ope group was superior in spinal flexibility to internally spinal fused group.
(14) At a press conference in Oslo, Stoltenberg, pictured, said that those guilty for the atrocities would be brought to justice and that the attacks would bring "more openess and more democracy" to the country.
(15) Micelles of OPE-9 and mixed micelles of OPE-9 with dimyristoyl and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine as well as phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, lysophosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, and palmitic acid were characterized by column chromatography on 6% agarose.
(16) Moreover, considering Murdoch has been frequently credited with knowing what to give the public before they want it, his tweets thus far suggest that he must have special foresight because it's hard to imagine anyone in any imaginable future wanting to read his self-promoting tweets for his own movies ( "Very proud of fox team who made this great film" ), his own TV channels ( "Got to watch Fox news at 5 EST" ), his own newspapers ("Great oped inWSJ today") and the terrible tortures of holidaying in somewhere called "St Barths" ( "Too many people."
(17) Synergistic effects of immune gamma-globulin fraction containing antibodies of OPE, protease and elastase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on the activities of antibiotic, dibekacin (DKB), in the cornea of mice were examined for the purpose of studying therapy for corneal ulcers due to Pseudomonal infection.
(18) A Work of Fiction As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow envel- oped me.
(19) Animals in groups OPE and OPR exhibited significantly prolonged gestation, prolonged duration of labor and delivery, and reduced fetal survival compared with controls.
(20) However, the state on membranes had a higher affinity for CCK than for OPE, and that on the solubilized preparation had a higher affinity for OPE than for CCK.