Pronunciation 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.
- Italian: nascondiglio, ripostiglio
- Portuguese: esconderijo
- Russian: запа́с
- French: cache, mémoire cache
- German: Cache
- Italian: memoria cache
- Portuguese: cache
- Russian: кэш
- Spanish: memoria caché, caché
- French: cache
cache (caches, present participle caching; past and past participle cached)
- 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
- Spanish: caché
cache (plural caches)
- Misspelling of cachet
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.013
