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Ape vs Ope - What's the difference?

ape | ope |

As a noun ape

is apartment.

As an adjective ope is

.

As a verb ope is

(archaic) to open.

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

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Wild; crazy.
    • We were ape over the new look.
    He went ape when he heard the bad news.

    See also

    * monkey * troop (collective noun) *

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    ope

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
  • * 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:
    • We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
    I will to bed! — To-morrow —
  • * Herbert
    • On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .

    Verb

    (op)
  • (archaic) To open.
  • * 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
    • The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.

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