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Definition: APACHES |
APACHESNoun plural1. A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. |
Date "APACHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references) |
Crosswords: APACHES |
| English words defined with "APACHES": Lipans ♦ Navajoes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years. (The Wild Bunch; writing credit: Walon Green; Roy N. Sickner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hondo and the Apaches (1967) The Apaches of Paris (1915) Young Wild West Cornered by Apaches (1912) A Dança dos Apaches (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after bombing run by North American B-25's of Air Apaches Group off China Coast, April 6, 1945. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Group of Apaches outside sutlers at the Apache Mojave Reservation camp, Date Creek - the chief is in the [...] Three views in the Sierra Blanca Mountains, Camp Apache, Coyotero Reservation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chief of the Yavapai Apaches at Date Creek - Ahoochy Kahmah Group of Apache tonto & Yavapai prisoners of United States at Camp Verdi - 3 men & 2 women. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Egypt | Egyptian Air Force: ongoing technical support, maintenance support and spare parts for C-130's, F-4's, F-16's, E2-C's, CH-47's, Falcon Business Jets, Apaches, and Black Hawks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "APACHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 76.00% of the time. "APACHES" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "APACHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 亚帕基印第安人 (Apache). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 아파치 (Apache). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | apachesay апачи (apache). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"APACHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abeche, Alpnacher, amache, apaces, apachae, apachee, Apachi, apachie, aparche, appache, arachis, opache, paches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "APACHES" (pronounced 'A*pa"ches'): Comanches. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-p-s" | |
-1 letter: apache, chapes, cheaps, pachas. | |
-2 letters: aches, apace, capes, caphs, chape, chaps, chase, cheap, ephas, heaps, pacas, paces, pacha, pasha, peach, pechs, phase, scape, shape, space. | |
-3 letters: aahs, aces, ache, apes, apse, asea, cape, caph, caps, casa, case, cash, ceps, chap, each, epha, haes, haps, hasp, heap, paca, pace, pacs, pase, pash, peas, pech. | |
-4 letters: aah. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-p-s" | |
+1 letter: acalephs, chapeaus, panaches. | |
+2 letters: acalephes, chapaties, headspace, hepaticas, panchaxes, scrapheap. | |
+3 letters: acephalous, approaches, aspherical, calipashes, caliphates, champagnes, chaparejos, chapatties, cheapjacks, cheapskate, headspaces, marchpanes, parachutes, pharmacies, scrapheaps. | |
+4 letters: amphimacers, antechapels, archesporia, bathyscaphe, camphorates, cardsharper, catastrophe, catchphrase, cheapskates, macrophages, packthreads, parenchymas, phenacaines, purchasable, spermatheca. | |
+5 letters: amphisbaenic, apothecaries, archesporial, archipelagos, backsplashes, bathyscaphes, cacographies, cardsharpers, cataphoreses, cataphoresis, catastrophes, catchphrases, chamaephytes, chaperonages, chaplaincies, handicappers, happenstance, hypercapnias, ipecacuanhas, mesencephala, metaphysical, patriarchies, seraphically, spermathecae. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 50 41 43 48 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .- -.-. .... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010000 01000001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P A C H E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 0041 0043 0048 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35503537423953 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국, китайский, китаец |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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