(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.
Silverback
Definition:
(n.) The knot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The building in question on Sunday was Hofstra University's soccer stadium in Long Island – current home to the NASL champion Cosmos (they won the league’s Soccer Bowl last year, by winning the fall season in their first campaign back, then beating the spring champions, and Sunday’s opponents, Atlanta Silverbacks, in the final in Atlanta).
(2) In the other game Atlanta Silverbacks held out till the 44th minute against the Seattle Sounders, but Andy Rose's opener was the first of 5 as they were swept aside in their relocated "home" tie.
(3) Within an hour of the finish of the last of the second round games, fans of NASL side Atlanta Silverbacks were furious to discover that a potential home tie against Seattle was now an away fixture, after Seattle had essentially bought the right to host the tie from the Silverbacks' owners - but with their big home crowds the Sounders have the resources and the will to take advantage of the rules as they currently stand.
(4) Tanya Plibersek – not an unambitious woman – defers so neatly to Shorten that she delegates a proxy when obliged to vote against him, and, unlike a paranoid silverback, the opposition leader isn’t keeping his youngsters down.
(5) The large silverback sat at the very front of the enclosure, his back turned to the glass.
(6) Outside politics and the BBC, and anywhere else Farage’s “big silverback gorillas” are not delightedly deferred to, the lingering presence of pension-defying, grandparent-age colleagues can, one gathers, be distinctly unwelcome to co-workers – and not only those hoping for promotion within the next century or so.
(7) The bottom line here is that Riyadh, emboldened by renewed US support and alarmed by the gains of Iran, is reclaiming the role of silverback.
(8) London zoo says no member of the public was at risk, yet the incident inevitably has echoes of the incident at Cincinnati zoo in May, when a three-year-old boy was able to climb into the enclosure of a large silverback called Harambe , which was shot dead before the child was harmed.
(9) Shock at the killing of a splendid young silverback, Harambe, mixed with relief that the four-year-old boy came through it relatively unscathed (though doubtless traumatised).
(10) Malcolm Fitzpatrick, senior curator of mammals for the zoo, said “categorically … that our male silverback gorilla Kumbuka did not break through any glass”.
(11) The silverback gorilla whose escape sent ZSL London Zoo into lockdown made an “opportunistic” exit through two unlocked doors into a corridor where a keeper was working, the zoo said.
(12) I have been charged by a nervous female who thought I was too close to a member of her group, a blackback (adolescent) male who I was filming feeding; I have been walloped and bowled over by boisterous blackbacks, treating me just like one of the family, and on occasion, been on the receiving end of defensive silverbacks giving their awe-inspiring screaming charge.
(13) A silverback gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London zoo has broken panes of glass at the attraction at least twice, the zoo has confirmed.
(14) When the Gorilla Doctors need to anaesthetise a member of a wild gorilla group in Rwanda, Uganda or DRC, a line of courageous park staff stand between the silverback and the patient, giving the vets time to operate to remove a snare or treat a wound.
(15) Clearly if a silverback wanted to kill a child, he could do so in an instant.
(16) 4th round: Carolina Railhawks vs Chivas USA Bracket 8 Seattle Sounders 5-1 Atlanta Silverbacks This was the game that had the city of Atlanta, and the state of Georgia, in an outrage against their hometown Silverbacks - for giving away their home team status to the Seattle Sounders.
(17) And then there's Atlanta , home of the Silverbacks, and perhaps most importantly a name that has cropped up more than once out of the mouth of the commissioner when discussing possible expansion teams, not least because it's the largest television market without an MLS franchise.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ian Redmond grooms Pablo, a silverback mountain gorilla, for parasitology research in Karisoke, Rwanda.
(19) This is a family of five western lowland gorillas (they originate from central Africa, but were born in captivity in Europe): the silverback male, Badongo; his three women, Kishka, Bahasha and Kahilli, and her one-year-old baby, Indigo, live together in a happy harem.
(20) When stressed, silverbacks strut and display their strength – often by dragging vegetation, group members or other objects (including humans) – but this is not a forest with soft leaf-litter but a zoo enclosure of concrete and rock, so such behaviour carries more risk to the unfortunate person being dragged.