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Ape vs Zee - What's the difference?

ape | zee |

As nouns the difference between ape and zee

is that ape is apartment while zee is .

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.

    See also

    * monkey * troop (collective noun) *

    Anagrams

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    zee

    English

    Etymology 1

    1670s: variant of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zee-bar.
  • (colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zees").
  • See also
    *
    Synonyms
    * zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) * izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

    See also

    * zeta

    Verb

  • (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  • (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
  • Etymology 2

    Article

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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