ape

1. any of various primates, esp those of the family Pongidae (see anthropoid ape), in which the tail is very short or absent

2. any monkey

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What does it mean when you dream about an ape?

As our closest animal relatives, apes can represent the natural, instinctual wisdom that most of us have lost, particularly if the dream animal is a gray-haired ape. We also sometimes associate simians (especially chimpanzees) with humor, and with the “chained up” animal self inside (e.g., King Kong). “Ape” can also mean to mimic.

ape

[āp]

(vertebrate zoology)

Any of the tailless primates of the families Hylobatidae and Pongidae in the same superfamily as humans.

APE

(audio, compression)

A lossless audio compression algorithm from MonkeysAudio.

apE

(graphics)

A graphics package from the Ohio Supercomputer Centre.

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APE

The file extension of a Monkey's Audio music file. See Monkey's Audio.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Ape

a city in Aluksne Raion, Latvian SSR, located 177 km northeast of Riga, near the border of the Estonian SSR. Ape has a railroad station on the narrow-gauge Valga-Gulbene line. Population, 2,600 (1968). Industry consists of woodworking and food-processing. Ape arose in the second half of the 19th century and received the status of a city in 1928.