apache

plural apaches

1. Alternative letter-case form of Apache, a Parisian gangster.

1. The group of languages used by any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.

   Synonyms: Apachean, Southern Athabaskan

2. A town in Oklahoma, United States. See Apache, Oklahoma.
3. informalcomputingApache HTTP Server, a widely used open source web server software suite.First known use released in 1995

   This list is necessary so Apache can set the right HTTP headers when a certain file is requested.

   2002, Daniel López Ridruejo, Daniel Lopez, Ian Kallen, Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 62

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   This section discusses the process of configuring Apache to participate in WebLogic clusters. Apache is a Web server, the most popular one, actually.

   2003, Scott Hawkins, BEA WebLogic Server Administration Kit, page 59

   IBM made an early commitment to support and use Apache as the basis for its web offerings and has dedicated substantial resources to the project because it makes more sense to use an established, proven web server.

   2014, Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Sams Publishing, page 496

plural Apaches

1. Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e., Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.

   Away up at the sources of the Gila, where the pines and cedars stand and where creeks and valleys are found, is a part of the Apache land.

   1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24

2. A person belonging to an Apache people.
3. historicalA Parisian gangster of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

   But the brain, and the agility, and the muscles that had coped with the mighty strength and cruel craftiness of Terkoz and Numa in the fastness of their savage jungle were not to be so easily subdued as these apaches of Paris had believed.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 35

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   “He had the big paper knife in his hand, and ‘Mind, Dorcas,’ he says, ‘you’ll have to be very respectful. This is my specially sharpened scimitar, and it’s off with your head if I’m at all displeased with you!’ Miss Cynthia, she was what they call an Apache, or some such name—a Frenchified sort of cut-throat, I take it to be. A real sight she looked. You’d never have believed a pretty young lady like that could have made herself into such a ruffian.”

   1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 115

4. plural only "Apaches"governmentAH-64 Apache, a U.S. military helicopter.