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Cache

//kæʃ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.; Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.

    "Near-synonym: stash"

  2. 2
    Misspelling of cachet. alt-of, misspelling

    "The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise."

  3. 3
    a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) wordnet
  4. 4
    A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.; A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  5. 5
    (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics wordnet
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  1. 6
    A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.; A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
  2. 7
    a secret store of valuables or money wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To place in a cache. transitive

    "And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators."

  2. 2
    save up as for future use wordnet
  3. 3
    To store data in a cache. transitive

    "In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change."

  4. 4
    To participate in geocaching. intransitive
  5. 5
    To hide or seek a geocache. transitive
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  1. 6
    to store up, stockpile

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

Etymology 2

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

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