Abed vs Aped - What's the difference?

abed | aped |

As an adverb abed

is in bed, or on the bed; confined to bed .

As a verb aped is

(ape).

abed

English

Adverb

(en adverb)

In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii

Not to be abed after midnight

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2

, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}

To childbed

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii

"I mean, she's brought a-bed "

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aped

English

Verb

(head)

(ape)

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ape

English

(wikipedia ape)

Noun

(en noun)

A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

Any such primate other than a human.

(derogatory) An uncivilised person.

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* ape-baboon * ape-bearer * apedom * apehood * apelike * apeling * apely * apeman * apeshit * go ape * naked ape

Verb

(ap)

To behave like an ape.

To imitate; mimic.

* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,

It is not conceived as a mere “aping ” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.

Derived terms

Adjective

(-)

Wild; crazy.

We were ape over the new look.

He went ape when he heard the bad news.

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