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a⋅pache

  [uh-pahsh, uh-pash; Fr. a-pash]
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–noun, plural a⋅paches  [uh-pah-shiz, uh-pash-iz; Fr. a-pash] .
a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
Origin:
1735–45, Americanism; < F: Apache

A⋅pach⋅e

  [uh-pach-ee]
–noun, plural A⋅pach⋅es, (especially collectively) A⋅pach⋅e.
1. a member of an Athabaskan people of the southwestern U.S.
2. any of the several Athabaskan languages of Arizona and the Rio Grande basin.
3. Military. a two-man U.S. Army helicopter designed to attack enemy armor with rockets or a 30mm gun and equipped for use in bad weather and in darkness.
Origin:
1915–20; < MexSp, perh. < Zuni ʔa⋅paču Navajos, presumably applied formerly to the Apacheans (Navajos and Apaches) generally
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a·pache   (ə-pāsh', ä-päsh')   
n.   pl. a·paches (ə-pāsh', ä-päsh')

  1. A member of the Parisian underworld.

  2. A thug; a ruffian.


[French, from Apache, Apache Indian; see Apache.]
A·pach·e   (ə-pāch'ē)   
n.   pl. Apache or A·pach·es

    1. A Native American people inhabiting the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Various Apache tribes offered strong resistance to encroachment on their territory in the latter half of the 19th century. Present-day Apache populations are located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. Any of the Apachean languages of the Apache.


[American Spanish, probably from Zuni aapaču, pl. of paču, Navajo.]
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Word Origin & History

Apache 
1745, from Amer.Sp. (1598), probably from Yavapai (a Yuman language) 'epache "people." Sometimes derived from Zuni apachu "enemy" (cf. F.W. Hodge, "American Indians," 1907), but this seems to have been the Zuni name for the Navajo. Fr. journalistic sense of "Parisian gangster or thug" first attested 1902. Apache dance was the WWI-era equivalent of 1990s' brutal "slam dancing."
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Computing Dictionary

Apache World-Wide Web, project
A open source HTTP server for Unix, Windows NT, and other platforms. Apache was developed in early 1995, based on code and ideas found in the most popular HTTP server of the time, NCSA httpd 1.3. It has since evolved to rival (and probably surpass) almost any other Unix based HTTP server in terms of functionality, and speed. Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server on the Internet, in May 1999 it was running on 57% of all web servers.
It features highly configurable error messages, DBM-based authentication databases, and content negotiation.
Latest version: 1.3.9, as of 1999-10-27.
(http://apache.org/httpd.html).
FAQ.
(1999-10-27)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
APACHE
acute physiology and chronic health evaluation
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