cache
English
Etymology 1
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean "hiding place for stores"), from the verb cacher.
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: cash
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Noun
cache (plural caches)
- 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.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Usage notes
Sometimes confused with cachet.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
store
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computing: fast temporary storage for data
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References
- JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Verb
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- To place in a cache.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- 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.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
Translations
to place in a cache
to place in a cache (computing)
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Etymology 2
Noun
cache (plural caches)
- Misspelling of cachet.
- 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
- 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.
- 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)
Declension
Declension of cache
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From cacher.
Pronunciation
Noun
cache f (plural caches)
Derived terms
Noun
cache m (plural caches)
Verb
cache
- first-person singular present indicative of cacher
- third-person singular present indicative of cacher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
- second-person singular imperative of cacher
Further reading
- “cache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
cache f (invariable)
Noun
cache f
Norman
Verb
- first-person singular present indicative of cachi
- third-person singular present indicative of cachi
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
- second-person singular imperative of cachi
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
References
- “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
Portuguese
Verb
cache
Spanish
Verb
cache
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