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cache¹
- /kæʃ/ UK
- /kæʃ/ Australia, US
- /keɪʃ/ Australia, US
- /kæɪʃ/ Australia
Sounds like cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation) · Rhymes with -æʃ, -eɪʃ
Where it comes from
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
noun caches
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Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
Near-synonym: stash
Similar: stash
- A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
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A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Similar: geocache
verb caches · caching · cached
- To place in a cache. 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.
- To store data in a cache. 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.
- To participate in geocaching.
- To hide or seek a geocache.
- to store up, stockpile
cache²
noun
- Misspelling of cachet 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hoard, stash, squirrel away, hive up, lay away, memory cache, storage, reservoir, store, storehouse, warehouse, depot, patch, hideout, hide, hide-and-seek
Translations
Every language
noun store
| Português | esconderijo |
|---|---|
| Italiano | nascondiglio, ripostiglio |
| Русский | запа́с zapás, тайни́к tajník, схрон sxron |
| עברית | מִצְבּוֹר mitsbór, מַחְבּוֹא makhbó, מַאֲגָר ma'agár |
noun computing: fast temporary storage for data
| Español | memoria caché, caché |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 캐시 kaesi |
| 日本語 | キャッシュ kyasshu |
| 中文 | 緩存 /缓存 huǎncún |
| Português | cache, memória cache |
| Français | cache, mémoire cache |
| Deutsch | Cache, Zwischenspeicher |
| Italiano | memoria cache, cache |
| Ελληνικά | κρυφή μνήμη kryfí mními |
| Română | cache (technichal) |
| Русский | кэш kɛš |
| Tiếng Việt | bộ nhớ đệm, vùng nhớ đệm |
| עברית | מַטְמוֹן matmón |
verb to store data in a cache
| Español | cachear |
|---|---|
| Português | armazenar em cache |
| Deutsch | cachen |
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