What's the difference between ape and tape?

Ape


Definition:

  • (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.

Tape


Definition:

  • (n.) A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
  • (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (2) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (3) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (4) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
  • (5) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (6) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
  • (7) In response, Trump used Twitter to falsely claim that the woman in question, Alicia Machado, had made a sex tape.
  • (8) Video tapes have been used extensively in medical education and especially in training for family practice.
  • (9) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
  • (10) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
  • (11) This preliminary study involved rating of tape-recorded sessions by psychoanalytically oriented judges.
  • (12) I didn't want to leave but David asked me to because he'd made a tape and said he wanted the world to understand.
  • (13) The computer system was a hybrid of analog devices (tape-recorder, voltage summator, and high-pass filters) and a multipurpose laboratory digital device (PDP-12).
  • (14) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
  • (15) A 16-channel EEG tape recorder system having a frequency response of DC-100 Hz for each channel is described.
  • (16) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (17) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
  • (18) However, more careful examination revealed that these actually represented transient speeding of the monitor tape, perhaps secondary to a semiconductor malfunction.
  • (19) Single stage semi-automated radioimmunoassays for total serum thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) are described which employ an automatic pipetting station, automatic gamma counter, and a programmable calculator with paper tape reader and printing facility.
  • (20) The tape-recorded EEG offers possibilities of more channels and a higher reliability when diagnosing short subclinical seizures, however, only after offline analysis.

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