aping
present participle ofape
ape
verb[T]
disapprovinguk/eɪp/us/eɪp/tocopysomething or someonebadlyandunsuccessfully:
He called the newbuildingunoriginaland said that itmerelyaped theclassicaltraditions.
Copying and copies
- anti-counterfeiting
- anti-piracy
- ape
- biomimicry
- blueprint
- bootleg
- derivative
- facsimile
- imaging
- imitate
- imitation
- imitative
- imitator
- mail merge
- pirate
- pirated
- plagiarism
- plagiarize
- recopy
- reproduce
Examplesofaping
aping
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Byapingthe discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.
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But it e could also be a case of more upmarket resortsapingan older fad for staged animal fights.
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I do not want to see more womenapingthe least attractive characteristics of men.
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People who envisageapingsuch a system and say that they are trying to help the poor will only hurt the poor.
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Now it might be said that the universities areapingpolytechnics with their growing interest in part-time and non-traditional students.
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It is a strange irony that when the polytechnics were set up many people criticised their approach and said that they wereapinguniversities.
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I want to say something about the serious position that we are currently in, and which we got ourselves into byapingwhat was done in 1996.
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Will he agree with me that too many television presenters, especially of programmes for young children, seem to court meretricious popularity byapingthe accents and slovenliness of the incoherent?
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We have learned that the allocation of a channel to ourselves would beapingfor ourselves an attractiveness which we only possess at rare moments in our lives.
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A highly exuberant and cultural festival, this dance form usually comprises a troupe of 6 performersapingthe movements of the majestic, predatory tigers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In other words, they try not to be what they were previously byapinga different, heavier sound, and the resulting record's a hodgepodge.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yet he was intolerant of a blindapingof the west in the name of progress.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Againstapingof imperialist cultural and for development of a progressive, pro-people culture.
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- in-conclusion
- inconclusive
- inconclusively
- in condition
- in confidence
- in-confidence
- incongruence
- incongruent
- incongruity
- incongruous
- incongruously
- in conjunction with
- in-conjunction-with
- in-connection-with
- in connection with something
- inconsequent
- inconsequential
- inconsequentially
- inconsiderable
- inconsiderate
- inconsiderately
- inconsiderateness
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- inconsistently