cache

See also caché

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -æʃ (not Australia)
• Homophone: cash (not Australia)

Noun

cache (plural caches)

1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.

   Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.

2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Related terms

• concealment
• evader
• evasion
• evasion and recovery
• recovery
• recovery operations

Translations

store

• Finnish: varasto (fi), kätkö (fi) (hidden store)

• Italian: nascondiglio (it) m

computing: fast temporary storage for data

• Bulgarian: запас (bg) (zapas) m
• Czech: mezipaměť (cs) f
• Finnish: välimuisti (fi)

• German: Cache (de) m
• Italian: memoria cache (it)
• Lithuanian: podėlis (lt) m

geocaching: hidden container

• Finnish: kätkö (fi), geokätkö (fi)

References

• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

1. To place in a cache.
2. (Marijuana smoking) For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking

Translations

place in a cache

• Bulgarian: складирам (bg) (skladiram)
• Czech: skrýš f, úkryt m, zásobárna f
• Finnish: varastoida (fi), piilottaa (fi), kätkeä (fi)

• Ido: cel-eyo
• Spanish: caché (es) m
• Swedish: cache, cacheminne

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French

Etymology

From cacher.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

cache f (plural caches)

1. hiding place

Derived terms

• cachette

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

1. cover, mask

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular present indicative of cacher
2. third-person singular present indicative of cacher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
5. second-person singular imperative of cacher

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Italian

Adjective

cache f (invariable)

1. (computing) cache (attributive)

Noun

cache f

1. (computing) cache

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Jèrriais

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

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Spanish

Verb

cache (infinitive cachar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cachar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cachar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cachar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cachar.