monkey vs primate

monkey

noun
  • Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape. 

  • A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry. 

  • A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion. 

  • The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer. 

  • A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child. 

  • The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing. 

  • A black, a black person. 

  • Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence. 

  • Synonym of five hundred, especially (Britain) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars. 

  • A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence. 

  • A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions. 

  • Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another. 

  • A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches. 

  • Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's. 

  • The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog. 

  • A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century. 

  • A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering. 

  • Synonym of face card. 

verb
  • To meddle; to mess (with). 

  • To mimic; to ape. 

primate

noun
  • A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey. 

  • In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province. 

  • A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians. 

  • In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription. 

  • In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese. 

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