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

• (British) enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/;
• (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA: /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
• (Australia) IPA: /kæɪʃ/

cache (plural caches)

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

   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.

• Italian: nascondiglio, ripostiglio
• Portuguese: esconderijo
• Russian: запа́с

• French: cache, mémoire cache
• German: Cache, Zwischenspeicher
• Italian: memoria cache, cache
• Portuguese: cache, memória cache
• Russian: кэш
• Spanish: memoria caché, caché

• French: cache
• German: Geocache, Cache

cache (caches, present participle caching; simple past and past participle cached)

1. (transitive) 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.

2. (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.

• German: cachen
• Portuguese: armazenar em cache
• Spanish: cachear

• coagulate
• cogent
• squat

cache (plural caches)

1. Misspelling of cachet